Please support our youngest readers.

The Gift of Reading Program, begun in 2007, encourages at risk preschoolers to read in the library and at home. It provides free, new books once a month to children attending the Library’s story time sessions at the following branches:

Thousands of books have been given to young readers. The Gift of Reading is positively changing children’s lives one book at a time.  

Lovingly supported by

The Arthur and Helen Baer Charitable Foundation
Unique Books
The Daniel and Henry Co.
The Booksource
Lockton
Centrue Bank

"Never have I been so moved as when I recently witnesed the Foundation's Gift of Reading Progam."
Harry Morley, Civic Leader