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A year round reading program for children under the age of 5 living in Southfield or Lathrup Village with the goal of reading 1000 books before starting kindergarten. 

The Southfield Public Library encourages families to read 1,000 books with their children before they enter kindergarten. 

You can log books each time you and your child read together. Count a book more than once if you read it more than once (kids love repetition).

Earn a FREE book for every 100 books logged.

Participants must live in Southfield or Lathrup Village and be under 6 years of age.

Have a question? Contact us by email at youth@southfieldlibrary.org or call 248 796-4240.



Put reading first, with 20 minutes a day spent reading to your children. 
Make it fun and exciting. Be imaginative.

If you read just 1 book a day, you will have read about 365 books in a year. That is 730 books in two years, and 1,095 books in just three years!

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