One of the greatest gifts you can give your babies and toddlers is to sign them up for a free early literacy reading program called “1,000 Books before Kindergarten” for children from ...

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 ...

Three-year-old Eastyn Case recently completed the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program at the Newton Public Library.

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 ...

The books are for kids in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade ... where she plays professionally in the WNBA. "Reading and education have always been hugely important in my life," Clark said ...