Future Readers Club
Welcome to the Future Readers Club! The Future Readers Club is for children ages birth to kindergarten and their caregivers, a club to support reading aloud to the very youngest children with a goal of reading 1000 books together before the child begins kindergarten.
BPL's Future Readers Club is modeled after the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten challenge, an initiative developed by The 1000 Books Foundation to help all children be ready to read by the time they enter school.
Join the Club!
Ready to read to your Future Reader? Register now to keep track of the books you read together and earn badges for your reading milestones!
Events for Future Readers
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The Future Readers Club is made possible through donations to the Boston Public Library Fund. To find out more go to bplfund.org. Thank you!
MakeMake
MakeMake le ofrece 300 libros electrónicos en español para niños de todas las edades. Ésta colección contiene libros interactivos.
Future Readers Club Partner: Boston Basics
The Boston Public Library partners with Boston Basics on many of our early literacy initiatives, including the Future Readers Club.
Early Literacy Tip of the Week: Rewrite a Song
When you use new and unusual words with and around your child, you help their brain grow. Incorporate new words through song!
Early Literacy Tip of the Week: Practice Retelling
Librarian Elise shares some tips to help your child in retelling a story for comprehension.
Early Literacy Tip of the Week: Use Lots of Words
Supporting your young child's brain development can feel like an enormous and weighty task. At heart though, it's as easy as A-B-C!
Books for Future Readers
Sing: 11 eBooks to Support Early Literacy
Singing is just plain fun, which reading should be as well! Check out these books to sing, move, and read with your little one.
Write: 13 eBooks to Support Early Literacy
Writing is one of the five early literacy practices outlined by the Every Child Ready to Read initiative.
Play: 13 eBooks to Promote Early Literacy
Playing with everyday objects around the house engages infants' and toddlers' senses and contributes to brain development.
Talk: 11 eBooks to Support Early Literacy
The more words little ones hear, the more they will ultimately be able to speak, read, and write.
Read: 13 eBooks to Support Early Literacy
Sharing informational books from a young age introduces vocabulary, and increases your child's knowledge of the world around them.
Sing: 13 Board Books to Support Early Literacy
Check out these books to sing, move, and read with your infant or toddler.
Sing: 13 Picture Books to Support Early Literacy
As kids dance and move to songs, they strengthen the phonemic awareness that they will need when they sound out words at school.
Talk: 13 Board Books to Support Early Literacy
Playing with sounds—rhyming, making animal sounds together, or singing—helps young kids become attuned to the sounds that make up words.
Talk: 13 Picture Books to Support Early Literacy
The more words preschoolers hear, the bigger their vocabularies will grow and the more they will ultimately be able to read and write.
Great books for preschoolers ages 3-5
At ages 3-5, kids start getting into stories with more plot that introduce more complicated ideas.
Great books for young preschoolers ages 2-3
If your kid likes longer stories, but isn't ready for paper pages, the library has board book editions of many picture books.
Write: 13 Picture Books to Support Early Literacy
Some of the books on this list tell stories of kids like them who are learning how and why to write.
Write: 11 Board Books to Support Early Literacy
When babies and toddlers practice turning pages, lift flaps, or point to specific objects, they begin to develop fine motor skills.
Play: 9 Picture Books to Support Early Literacy
Research shows that children who have more time for child-directed play have better executive function.
Play: 13 Board Books to Promote Early Literacy
Quality play is great preparation for school success when your baby or toddler gets older!
