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WITH KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS UNABLE TO read to their pupils in classrooms due to coronavirus quarantines, some parents are allowing celebrities to handle a portion of that task.

Head to Jennifer Garner’s Instagram page, for example, and you’ll hear the actress whinny like a horse and snort like a pig as she reads by Margaret Wise by her daughter, Aviana Olea Le Gallo and illustrated by her husband, Darren Le Gallo, has been watched 540,000 times. Garner and Adams launched their reading campaign “Save With Stories,” on March 16 and are using it to raise money for charities Save the Children and No Kid Hungry.

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