1,000 Books Before Kindergarten is a nationwide challenge that encourages parents and caregivers to regularly read aloud to their children.

Reading to children from an early age provides them with essential early literacy skills and prepares them to enter kindergarten. Most importantly, sharing books with children promotes a lifelong love of books and reading!

Sign up with Polk County Public Libraries and your child will earn a sticker and brag tag for every 100 books they read, and a grand prize when they finish 1,000.

Contact Jen at jdickenson@polklibrary.org or (828) 894-8721 x284 to get started today!

Print your tracker here.