Create a Bookprint (that's a list of the five books that helped shape who you are). For every new Bookprint created, a brand-new book will be donated to Reach Out and Read.
Reach Out and Read partners with pediatricians to support literacy from birth by giving new books to children and advice to parents about the importance of reading aloud.
- 34% of our nation's children enter kindergarten without the basic skills they need to read.
- Reach Out and Read serves nearly 4 million children annually, putting books into homes that may have none, and encouraging families to read together.
- Reach Out and Read families will spend an average of 350 hours reading together by the time the child enters kindergarten.
- 61% of children living in low-income families have no age-appropriate books in their homes.