First Book Partners with Walter Payton Man of the Year Chris Long Donates Nearly 80,000 Books to Kids through First Quarter for Literacy Initiative
Posted In:Our Partners, Press Room
September 5, 2019 
How to Host Your Own Backpack Build: 10 Tips and Tricks
Posted In:Focus on First Book, Our Partners
July 11, 2019 A “backpack build” is a great event to engage any group of volunteers who want to make a difference for children in need. At a backpack build, volunteers fill backpacks with books, school supplies, and other learning essentials. The bags are then delivered to kids who need them most! Hosting… Read More
Brave Journeys: Beyond Accents and Silences
Posted In:Our Bookshelf, Our Partners
June 13, 2019 Today’s blog is a guest post, by Natalia Chamorro, Stony Brook University PhD candidate in Hispanic Languages and Literature and a Regional Economic Development Council/New York State Council on the Arts Fellow for Herstory Writers Workshop, the… Read More
“Voces Sin Fronteras”: Coming to a New Home
Posted In:Our Partners
June 11, 2019 Today’s blog is a guest post, originally posted on the WRAG Journalism Fellows program blog and reposted with permission from our publishing partner, Shout Mouse Press. The writer is an author… Read More
The Stars of the SHOWTIME Drama ‘The Chi’ and Author Jason Reynolds Visit Chicago with First Book
Posted In:Our Partners
June 4, 2019 We are proud to have taken part in one of the many ways SHOWTIME®… Read More
Shout Mouse Press: There’s a Story Behind Every Book
Posted In:Our Bookshelf, Our Partners
May 23, 2019 Today’s blog is a guest post written by Lana Wong, Community Impact & Partnerships Director at Shout Mouse Press If children don’t read about people who look like them … they feel invisible. I feel this is an opportunity for them to see that they’re visible and their voice… Read More
Join First Book Employees in the Magic of Storytelling!
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March 26, 2019 We’ve been celebrating our annual Magic of Storytelling campaign with Disney since January, but it’s coming to an end! And we still need your help to unlock a 1 million book donation to the educators and kids we serve. How can you help exactly? It’s simple: Post a shelfie (a… Read More
First Book Partners With Antiracist Research and Policy Center For Antiracist Book Festival
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March 21, 2019 First Book is proud to announce our new partnership with The Antiracist Research and Policy Center! The Center is hosting the first and only book festival celebrating the nation’s leading anti-racist writers and scholars. The 1st Annual National Antiracist Book Festival will be… Read More
dd’s DISCOUNTS and First Book Celebrate Partnership’s 10th Anniversary
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January 31, 2019 “dd’s and First Book have made such an amazing impact on our students. Thanks to this program we have been able to get high interest, age-appropriate books into the hands of our students and build home libraries! We are growing a culture of readers!” This year, dd’s DISCOUNTS and First… Read More
Provide Books to Kids with Your Picture!
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January 17, 2019 This week we launched our annual Magic of Storytelling campaign with our partners Disney! Once again, we need your help to unlock a 1 million book donation to the educators and kids we serve. Join our mission to provide books to kids and me by posting… Read More