Teacher Appreciation Week provides us with the opportunity to celebrate great teachers who change lives and inspire young people to reach for their dreams. First Book is especially grateful to teachers who work tirelessly to fight illiteracy and introduce children to the joy of of reading. In honor of Teacher... Read more
Big day for Rick Riordan! He was named author of the year by hundreds of thousands of young readers at last night’s Children’s Choice Book Awards (we hope you caught our live tweets from from the awards show). And ‘The Throne of Fire‘ comes out today – the new and... Read more
Welcome to Children’s Book Week! We love children’s books, here at First Book, as you might imagine. That’s we have distributed over 80 million of them to kids from low-income neighborhoods. But, honestly, we also just get excited about great new books and new work by our favorite authors. We... Read more
Today’s post comes to First Book from the Pi Beta Phi chapter at UC San Diego. Pi Beta Phi is one of First Book’s fantastic partners. Their generosity and dedication have helped us get new books into the hands of thousands of kids from low-income communities. On Sunday, May 15th, the Pi... Read more
Today’s guest blog post is from John Merrow, education correspondent for PBS NewsHour and president of Learning Matters. Merrow is also the author of The Influence of Teachers. Recently, while editing a piece for PBS NewsHour about ‘the vocabulary gap’ that develops in the first three years of life, I... Read more
Two of our favorite children’s book authors (two of everyone’s favorite children’s book authors, really), Rick Riordan and James Patterson, will be appearing, together for the first time, at Lincoln Center in New York City next month. The two authors will read from their latest titles (including exclusive first looks)... Read more
I know you receive a great many stories like this one, but your survey wouldn’t allow for something like this to be entered, so I thought I would share this with you personally. As you are probably aware, our school deals with at-risk teens. Because of your grant and the... Read more
In celebration of Earth Day, First Book asked our friends at Tata Consultancy Services to send us a post in support of our blog series on STEM education. Tata is committed to enhancing environmental performance through the reduction of their carbon and ecological footprints and involvement of business associates and... Read more
Colleen Ludington is a children’s book author, mother of two and community volunteer, and has helped distribute 144,000 new books to children from low-income neighborhood in Charlotte. N.C. over the last five years. “It’s not just awesome,” she said. “It’s really rewarding.” Read more
Last week, First Book staffers, along with volunteers from our friends at Barclays, visited Girls Prep Bronx Elementary School in New York City, and brought along some books. Read more