United Through Reading Storytime Starter Kit 2019

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 50 bookmarks and one copy each of:

• Time to Sleep by Denise Fleming (Paperback)
• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (Paperback)
• My Friends / Mis Amigos (Bilingual, English/Spanish) by Taro Gomi (Paperback)
• Round is a Mooncake: A Book of Shapes by Roseanne Thong (Paperback)
• On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein by Jennifer Berne (Paperback)
• Curious George's First Day of School by H.A. Rey (Paperback)
• Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh (Paperback)
• Dear Juno by Soyung Pak (Paperback)
• Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey (Paperback)
• Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans (Paperback)
• It's Mine by Leo Lionni (Paperback)
• Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (Paperback)
• Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow (Board Book)
• No No Yes Yes by Leslie Patricelli (Board Book)
• My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss, Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher (Board Book)
• The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss (Board Book)
• Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. (Board Book)
• Little Critter: Just Going to the Dentist by Mercer Mayer (Paperback)
• Little Critter: Just Go to Bed by Mercer Mayer (Paperback)
• Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowrey (Paperback)
• Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? by Dr. Seuss (Board Book)
• Corduroy by Don Freeman (Paperback)
• A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni (Paperback)
• The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (Board Book)
• Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann (Board Book)
• Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang (Board Book)
• Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes (Paperback)
• Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin (Board Book)
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar / La oruga muy hambrienta (Bilingual, English/Spanish) by Eric Carle (Board Book)
• Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z by Lois Ehlert (Board Book)
• Soy un hermano mayor (I'm a Big Brother, Spanish Edition) by Joanna Cole (Hardcover)
• Soy una hermana mayor (I'm a Big Sister, Spanish Edition) by Joanna Cole (Hardcover)