Visit the Peterborough Town Library now to get your family started on the NH 1000 BOOKS BEFORE KINDERGARTEN program!
The Peterborough Town Library has launched an early literacy initiative that encourages families to read to their young children and to use the resources of their town library. The program, NH 1000 Books before Kindergarten, is designed to provide parents with the tools and encouragement they need to read 1,000 books to their little ones, before they reach kindergarten. Studies have shown that a child’s brain develops most rapidly before the age of three and children who are read to have bigger vocabularies when they enter school.
If you read three short stories to your child every night at bedtime that’s 1,095 books in just one year!If you read three short stories to your child every night at bedtime that’s 1,095 books in just one year!
How to Participate:
- Visit the Library
- Pick up a NH 1000 BOOKS BEFORE KINDERGARTEN canvas tote bag, filled with a tally sheet, a bookmark, and the book, Read to your Bunny by Rosemary Wells.
- Check out books or read books at home. We also have ten filled book bags with five fun, colorful, and playful boardbooks contained in easy “to-go” red bags on our red table as you enter the Children’s Area.
- Fill out the Reading tall Sheets–keep at home or turn in for a prize
- REPEAT!Special thanks to the Friends of the Peterborough Town Library and The Toadstool Bookshop for purchasing the Read to Your Bunny books. The NH 1000 Books Before Kindergarten initiative is sponsored by CHILIS and the NH State Library, and supported by the Center for the Book at the NH State Library, the NH Academy of Family Physicians, and NH Family Voices.
Special thanks to the Friends of the Peterborough Town Library and The Toadstool Bookshop for purchasing the Read to Your Bunny books. The NH 1000 Books Before Kindergarten initiative is sponsored by CHILIS and the NH State Library, and supported by the Center for the Book at the NH State Library, the NH Academy of Family Physicians, and NH Family Voices.
