A train of six pre-school children from Step by Step  are  pulled along Fourteenth Street as they make their way towards Memorial Park  on Friday, March 7, 2008. Step by Step EDU-Play Programs Inc. embraces the vision that, through collaborative partnerships, facilitation of intrinsic motivation and specialized creative programming, children with disabilities will have the opportunity to expand their abilities for education, fun and positive inclusion opportunities within society.

 (1) Actor  Ed Edwards,  Chairman of the Santa Monica Library Board, reads Dr. Seuss' ''Horton Hears a Who" while librarian Ann Wagner shows illustrations from the book during  Kiwanis Club of Santa Monica's  Super Seuss-a-bration at the Santa Monica Public Library on Saturday, March 8, 2008. (2) Actress Amy Brenneman (Private Practice) reads 'Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You' during the Super Seuss-a-bration. (3) Kindergartner Grisha Mason, 5, assists  Magician/Entertainer Abbit the Average with a magic trick. (4) The Cat in the Hat, Kiwanis President Janie Harding, reads a Dr, Seuss book to first-graders Lilly Brodie, 7, (left) and Caitlin Kelly, 7, (center) at the Santa Monica Library during the event.  (5) Ariel King, 3, plays with the cats hat.

Sisters hold hands while walking along the shoreline at Santa Monica beach on Saturday, February 9, 2008.

Children watch as the Swell Sharks get fed at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium during  Heal the Bay's “Whale of a Weekend” on Sunday, Febuary 3, 2008. The weekend was a celebration of the gray whales annual migration back to the arctic.