Families Playing in Hawkins

As part of the LSTA Early Literacy grant this year, several libraries received mini-grants, either to help promote family engagement, or to help with media mentor efforts.  Here’s what Arlene and Marena did in Hawkins:”The Hawkins Area Library...

Big Fun Play Date

Exploring the box-blocksBack in September, Tiffany Meyer, then the director of the Dresser Public Library (now at Ellsworth) attended our LSTA-funded webinar by Rachel Payne about the Brooklyn Public Library’s Read Play Grow program. Amazing sensory input with...

Read Aloud 15 Minutes Campaign

A parent and child at Phillips’ “Books Are Magic” PartyIn 2012, Read Aloud began a decade-long campaign to make reading aloud for 15 minutes/day the new parenting standard–likening the campaign to those designed to make daily toothbrushing a...