Independent evaluation study indicates our programs work!

Parents better understood the importance of reading aloud.
Parents spent twice as much time reading to their children.
Teachers increased their read-aloud activities and children expressed more enjoyment and interest in books.

As a result:

Children’s early literacy skills improved significantly!

Sources:

Independent Research study of Bring Me A Book’s Programs conducted in 2006 by Applied Survey Research and our annual surveys.

Our data confirms what the National Commission on Reading revealed:
"The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children."

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Testimonials

"If parents understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent – and every adult caring for a child – read aloud a minimum of three stories a day to the children in their lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation."

—Mem Fox, Author of Reading Magic, Best-Selling Picture-Book Author, and former Associate Professor in Literacy Studies, Flinders University, Australia

"We need to inoculate children against illiteracy, in the same way that we inoculate them against measles and polio."

—Mem Fox, Author of Reading Magic, Best-Selling Picture-Book Author, and former Associate Professor in Literacy Studies, Flinders University, Australia