That's a picture book, writen by Branford author Nancy Elizabeth Wallace. Volunteers, accompanied by a senator's wife, dropped off the book Wednesday off Paige and mom Brooke's (pictured) room at the Hospital of St. Raphael.

Paige is following in the footsteps of her 9, 3 and 2-year-old siblings. All were born at St. Raphael's. And all went home with books.

The books come from a volunteer organization called Read to Grow. The group formed to promote early childhood literacy. It reports that in cities like New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport, more than half of the adults "function at the two lowest levels of literacy." So the group collects books to get children reading, at first with their parents, from birth.

Click here to read about the organization.

Ten years ago the group got the idea of setting families up to read beginning from their children's birth by visiting them right in the hospital. It started at Yale-New Haven Hospital, then St. Raphael's. Today ithe group also distributes books in the newborn units of Hartford Hospital, St. Vincent's Medical Center, Bridgeport Hospital, St. Vincent's Medical Center, Mancheste memorial Hospital, and Lawrence & Memorial Hospital.

Paige was born at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. Her parents, Brooke and Tom, weren't surprised to see Read to Grow volunteers arrive with a book. The group's volunteers made similar deliveries to each of Paige's siblings.

One visitor was new: Jackie Clegg (at right in photo), wife of U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd. She showed up, press in tow, to call attention to Read to Grow and to efforts in general to promote childhood literacy. She was greeted by Roxanne Coady (at left), who runs R.J. Julia Booksellers. Coady is a founder and the current chair of Read to Grow. She helps arrange for donations by book publishers. Random House has given us 10,000 books at a time," as has Little, Brown.