End Book Deserts

Discover what a World Series winning pitcher is doing to promote reading culture.

The Conscious Connect and Barbershop Books work to end book deserts across community spaces

Join author-illustrator Jason Chin and Vermont-based CLIF for how to #endbookdeserts in rural communities.

Find out more about North Carolina-based Book Harvest and their belief that reading and learning are a right, not a privilege.

New York-based LINC ends book deserts through community programming.

Teacher Penny Kittle discusses her foundation’s work to #endbookdeserts by supplying classroom libraries to high school teachers.

Best selling author Nic Stone discusses her efforts to promote reading culture.

Pam Allyn explains the collaboration between LitWorld, Scholastic, and World Read Aloud Day.

#OneBookBaltimore and the Maryland Book Bank works to #endbookdeserts in Baltimore and the mid-Atlantic.

A Texas-based program, BookSpring launches children into a world of reading.

Author Matt de la Pena - This episode features Newbery award winner Matt de la Pena, who talks about growing up as a non-reader, how books changed his lives, and how his current work aims to increase…

This episode features two programs - Cantu’s Books and Liberation Library - who provide book access to incarcerated youth.

Meghan Cox Gurdon, author of The Enchanted Hour, shares the impact of book deserts, how reading aloud transforms child-parent relationships, and how technology has impacted book deserts.

One child enters foster care every two seconds; this episode features Ticket to Dream, and their work to overcome book deserts for children in the foster care system.

Find out how Wash and Learn and Library Laundromat League convert laundromats into literacy hubs.

Literacy leaders Donalyn Miller and Colby Sharp talk about the power of book ownership.

The Dollywood Foundation and its Imagination Library works well past 9 to 5 to distribute 16 million books a year by mail to children in Tennessee and beyond.

With a network of over 450,000 educators, First Book is a power player in the movement to end book deserts.

Award winning author Jason Reynolds shares his work to provide book access. 

A grassroots effort to spread the love of reading, there are 90.000 little free libraries around the world.