United Through Reading Storytime Starter Kit 2020

First Book has partnered with nonprofit United Through Reading to share their high quality collection of 32 titles ranging from board books to Middle Grade novels with our network of teachers and program staff. United Through Reading (UTR) encourages members of our armed forces to read with loved ones both in person and via recording if the serviceman or woman is away from home for active duty assignments, training or deployment. UTR has sent books to over 200 locations around the world so that service members can be video-recorded reading aloud to their children, classrooms full of kids, or their nieces and nephews.

Storytime Starter Kits are a collection of new, high-quality and thematically appropriate books. Each Storytime Starter Kit includes titles that can be read to a baby in utero, a child on his first day of school, or to a high schooler on her birthday. The United Through Reading program encourages early childhood literacy and strengthens family bonds until the service member returns home. Participation in the United Through Reading is free to servicemen and women and connects military families in spite of the miles and oceans that often separate them.

This collection contains a pack of 30 bookmarks and one copy each of:

• Blankie by Leslie Patricelli (Board Book)
• Can't You Sleep, Little Bear? by Martin Waddell (Paperback Book)
• Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn (Paperback Book)
• Waiting Is Not Easy by Mo Willems (Hardcover Book)
• Elephant & Piggie: The Thank You Book by Mo Willems (Hardcover Book)
• Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary (Paperback Book)
• Goodnight Moon / Buenas noches, Luna (Board Book) by Margaret Wise Brown (Board Book)
• Little Critter: Just Saving My Money by Mercer Mayer (Paperback Book)
• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Paperback Book)
• Donde viven los monstruous (Where the Wild Things Are, Spanish Edition) by Maurice Sendak (Paperback Book)
• Curious George by H. A. Rey (Paperback Book)
• Scaredy Squirrel has a Birthday Party by Mélanie Watt (Paperback Book)
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Paperback Book)
• If Animals Kissed Goodnight by Ann Whitford Paul (Board Book)
• Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? (Board Book) by Bill Martin, Jr. (Board Book)
• A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni (Paperback Book)
• Black Panther: Warriors of Wakanda (Little Golden Book) by Frank Berrios (Hardcover Book)
• Disney's Moana: Quest for the Heart by Disney Publishing Worldwide (Paperback Book)
• Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann (Board Book)
• Happy Birthday To You by Dr. Seuss (Hardcover Book)
• It's Mine by Leo Lionni (Paperback Book)
• Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney (Hardcover Book)
• Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans (Paperback Book)
• Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (Paperback Book)
• One Fish, Two Fish by Dr. Seuss (Hardcover Book)
• Goodnight Numbers by Danica McKellar (Board Book)
• That's Me Loving You by Amy Krouse Rosenthal (Hardcover Book)
• The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss (Hardcover Book)
• The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone (Hardcover Book)
• 1-2-3 Dinosaurs Bite: A Prehistoric Counting Book by National Natural History Museum (Board Book)
• One, Two, Three by Sandra Boynton (Board Book)