The ‘1000 Books Before Kindergarten Program’ is free, and encourages early literacy skills by having parents read one thousand books with their children before they start kindergarten.

Aleese Rudibaugh recently completed the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten program at Lepper Library in Lisbon. She received a ...

If you read just one book a night, you will have read 365 books in a year. That is 730 books in two years and 1,095 books in three years. If you consider that most children start kindergarten at ...

A local school recently got a new vending machine, but instead of pop and candy, it’s filled with books. Webster Kindergarten ...

Why did an estimated 27 percent of Minnesota’s five-year-old children enter kindergarten unprepared? I tend to focus on that number, but that also means that 73 percent of our kids did enter ...

If your child’s preschool is ending for the summer, there’s a great way to keep them reading: join the Carver County Library’s 1,000 Books before Kindergarten program. Families ...

Waylon Schweinebart, 4, has completed the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program at the Newton Public Library.