Bring Me A Book‘s mission is to provide underserved communities with easy access to the best children’s books and to inspire reading aloud to children, the most important factor in determining a child’s future success in reading.

Bring Me A Book Foundation (BMAB) is a partnership driven, early literacy nonprofit that provides libraries of new, multicultural hardback books in multiple languages, as well as First Teacher early literacy workshops for parents, preschool teachers, and caregivers and other community outreach programs. Its goals include providing equitable access to quality children’s literature; encouraging a daily ritual of reading at school, after school, and in the home; fostering an early love of reading and learning; preparing children for school success; enabling English language development; and, ultimately, attainment of family literacy.

The First Teachers Program consists of read aloud training to parents of students with access to BMAB’s Bookcase Library. First Teachers Training is an interactive workshop that inspires and teaches parents and teachers about the critical importance of reading aloud and reading aloud strategies. The curriculum is fun, interactive, highly visual, and uses modeling techniques to motivate parents to incorporate reading aloud into their daily ritual while supporting emergent literacy skills, school readiness, and family bonding experiences.

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In 2009, the Foundation supported the First Teachers Literacy Curriculum to develop an early literacy, read-aloud curriculum for preschool teachers, assistants, and childcare providers.