
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Magic Tree House Collection
Posted In:For Educators, Impact Stories, Our Partners
December 15, 2022 This year is the 30th anniversary of Mary Pope Osborne’s beloved Magic Tree House series. The incredibly popular series, published by Penguin Random House, has sold over 143 million books worldwide and includes over one hundred titles. Those titles include the… Read More

Meet First Book’s 550,000th member: NYC educator Tamika
Posted In:First Book Community Highlight, Focus on First Book, For Educators, Impact Stories
August 29, 2022 This summer, Tamika made First Book history by becoming the 550,000th educator to join the First Book Network. A teacher at a middle school in the New York public school system, Tamika attended a Reading Opens the World book give-away held in the Bronx by the United Federation… Read More

Build the Change: The LEGO Group’s Network Impact
Posted In:Impact Stories, Our Partners
March 7, 2022 In 2021, the LEGO Group, a partner of First Book, worked to take a new approach to provide resources to our growing network of educators. Instead of creating resources based on corporate goals or assumptions, the LEGO Group worked with First Book to conduct research and create materials that were… Read More

First Book’s Honor Roll
Posted In:First Book Community Highlight
May 20, 2021 My mother was a high-school biology teacher for 32 years, every week was Teacher Appreciation Week in our house. To say I understood her impact on a child’s life is an understatement, but I hear of her impact often. “Oh, you’re Ms. Awad’s daughter? She was the best teacher I… Read More

Books for Baltimore: Impacting the Achievement Gap
Posted In:Impact Stories
May 19, 2021 The following is a guest blog post written by educators Loretta Holmberg and Ann Mengel, VIPTeach Global Online Teaching Fellows, First Book network educators, and leaders of the Books for Baltimore project. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of children have not been in physical… Read More

How Diapers Break Down Barriers to Education
Posted In:Impact Stories
May 14, 2021 In 1992, First Book began with a mission to provide brand-new books to children in need. Throughout the years, the mission has stayed constant, but the needs have changed and expanded. Nearly 30 years later First Book continues to build a path out of poverty through educational equity and breaking… Read More

Reach Out and Read of Greater New York Puts Diverse Books in Waiting Rooms
Posted In:Impact Stories, Our Partners
January 11, 2021 The following is a guest blog post written by our partner Reach Out and Read of Greater New York Dr. Faye Kokotos, a pediatrician at the Children’s Hospital of Montefiore, recently described well-child visits during COVID-19 as an anxiety-ridden experience: “The waiting room is eerily quiet; the… Read More

EPIC strives to help vocabulary development in Pueblo, CO with help from First Book
Posted In:Impact Stories, Our Partners
December 14, 2020 The following is a guest blog post written by our partner Reach Out and Read of Greater New York There is no denying, life as we knew it prior to March of this year has been a challenge in so many ways. We have all had… Read More

First Book Launches 2nd Annual #GiveaMillion Fundraiser
Posted In:Impact Stories
November 19, 2020 Holiday Campaign to Raise $1 Million and Provide 1 Million Books to Kids in Need WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 2020 — First Book, the nonprofit social enterprise focused on equal access to quality education, today announced that it has launched its second annual #GiveAMillion campaign designed to raise $1 million between… Read More

Georgia-based Books for Keeps pivots, innovates, & delivers 68,500 books to students for summer reading
Posted In:Impact Stories, Our Partners
November 4, 2020 The following is a guest blog post written by our partner Books for Keeps. Books are a torch during times of darkness and human searching. In March of this year, as the skies over our world seemed to turn black, and we all wondered what would happen… Read More