2 News Oklahoma champions our parent company’s “If You Give A Child A Book” campaign.”
The goal is to promote literacy by providing free books to help children learn to read.
Seeing the commercials prompted a Broken Arrow woman to contact us because she had some books to give.
We soon found her family’s gift involves the mom they lost and the happiness found in the pages of the book she wrote.
“This book was written by our mom, Shirley Anne Burroughs. She had a vision that we all have sparking gems within us,” said Corinne Johnson said while holding the bright blue copy of the children’s book, “Hi! I’m Happy!.”
KJRH Corinne Johnson and her sister, Bev Colson, want to share their mother’s message.
“She was helpful and happy and glowing. She just had a beautiful light around her. Always wanted to help others,” said Bev Colson, Burroughs’ daughter.
Shirley Anne Burroughs was a former teacher who wrote and published a book for children 12 years ago. She recorded the narration and put a CD inside the book cover so children and their parents could read along with Burroughs.