Ferst Foundation for Childhood Literacy

 

Literacy in Georgia

1 in 5 of our children lives in poverty

Approximately 61 percent of low-income
families do not have a single piece of
reading material suitable for a child

A third of our children come to school
unprepared to learn

Only 28% of Georgia 4th graders read
at or above proficiency

We have the nations third highest rate
of high school dropouts

One in four adults in Georgia operates
at a low literacy level

Illiteracy and low literate workers
cost Atlanta $2.6 billion and Georgia
businesses $7 billion each year

Several states plan how many jail
cells they will build in the future by
how many children are not reading on
grade level by third grade 

With your help, this can change…

 

 

Available at the Library

Birth to 3 Years Old

  • Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
  • Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
  • Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
  • Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
  • Where's Spot? by Eric Hill
  • Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
  • Corduroy by Don Freeman
  • The Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
  • Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
  • Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr
  • I Can! Can You? by Peggy Parish
  • I'm a Little Mouse by Noelle & David Carter
  • Miffy series by Dick Bruna
  • Tom and Pippo Make a Friend by Helen Oxenbury
  • Mr. Gumpy’s Motorcar by John Burningham
  • Do You Want To Be My Friend? and The Very Hungry Catepillar by Eric Carle
  • Freight Train by Donald Crews
  • Ask Mr. Bear by Marjorie Flack
  • Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? by Tana Hoban
  • Blueberries For Sale by Robert McCloskey
  • Quick As A Cricket by Audrey Wood
  • Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes

4 & 5 Years Old

  • Arthur series by Marc Brown
  • A Color Of His Own by Leo Lionni
  • The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
  • Are You My Mother? by Philip Eastman
  • Chester’s Way by Kevin Henkes
  • Curious George by H. A. Rey
  • I Wanna Iguana by Karen Orloff
  • Owen by Kevin Henkes
  • Tuesday by David Wiesner
  • Little Bear series by Else H. Minark
  • Frog and Toad series by Arnold Lobel
  • Move Over, Rover by Karen Beaumont
  • Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
  • How I Became A Pirate by Melinda Long
  • The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by John Scieszka
  • If you Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
  • Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
  • Monster Who Ate My Peas by Danny Schnitzlien
  • Diary of a Worm and Diary of A Spider by Doreen Cronin


An additional resource for book suggestions is The Read-Aloud Handbook Including a giant treasury of great read-aloud books by Jim Trelease (published by Penguin Books). The author has a website at http://www.trelease-on-reading.com.

 

 

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