1000 Books Before Kindergarten

Discover a fun way to prepare your child for school!

Participate in the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten challenge!

For every book you read together, color in a book on the provided coloring sheet and win prizes for every 200 books read until you complete the challenge of 1,000 books. This program is for children 0-5, who are not yet enrolled in school.

To participate, register at your local library and check out these great reads to get started!

Cartoon character drawings of a cow, sheep and three pigs with the text "Moo Baa La La La by Sandra Boyton".

Moo, Baa, La La La!

Sandra Boyton

Cartoon drawings of a child touching their nose, of two feet, and of a child touching their stomach with the text "The Nose Toes and Tummy Book Sally Nicholls Gosla Herba".

The Nose, Toes and Tummy Book

Sally Nicholls

Cartoon drawing of young child holding hands with two people and feet in air. Text is "Leo, Rise and Shine Anna McQuinn illustrated by Ruth Hearson A Leo Can! Book".

Leo Rise and Shine

Anna McQuinn

Pictures of a teddy bear, green apple, rabbit in grass, honey dripping from a tool, and a blue outline of a hand with fuzzy material. Text says "The Touch Book a sensory book to explore soft smooth fluffy sticky My World Montessori-inspired"

The Touch Book

Nicola Edwards

Drawing of a horse with a cat, dog, pig and duck riding it and chicks underneath. Text reads "Clip-Clop! Nicole Smee".

Clip-Clop!

Nicola Smee

Cover of book Baby Love with the drawn picture of a baby and dog on grass, surrounded by flowers and the baby is holding a garden hose with water dripping out of it.

Baby Love

Angela DiTerlizzi

Cover of book with the text Faster! Faster! by Leslie Patricelli, which shows the drawn image of a child sitting on top of a male adult who is crawling with a dog chasing behind them on a dirt path with green grass and blue skies.

Faster! Faster!

Leslie Patricelli

Cover of book with the text 5 Little Ducks Denise Fleming, which shows the drawn image of five ducks on top of the ground with grass in the background and two bugs flying near them.

5 Little Ducks

Denise Fleming

Cover of book with the text "We're Going on a Bear Hunt A Pop-Up Edition Michael Rosen Helen Oxenbury" with a drawn picture of a three children and one adult walking to the right, the adult carrying one child on their shoulders with a child in front of them and a child behind them.

We're Going on a Bear Hunt - A Pop-Up Edition

Michael Rosen

Cover of book with the text "Freight Train Donald Crews" and a drawn image of a steam engine train on train tracks with a white cloud coming out of the top of the front of the train. Includes silver image from Caldecott award.

Freight Train

Donald Crews

Cover of book with the text "Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas", with a drawn picture of four imaginary beings in green, red, purple and blue with a light blue background behind them.

Rhyming Dust Bunnies

Jan Thomas

The book cover with text "Ploof words and pictures by Ben Clanton creator of Narwhal and Jelly & Andy Chou Musser co-creator of Science Explorers", which has a drawn image of a white cloud with a smiling face and blue background.

Ploof

Ben Clanton

Book Cover with the text "Take A Breath Sujean Rim", and the drawn image of a red bird with feathers coming off of them and a white background.

Take A Breath

Sujean Rim

Book Cover with the text "The Rabbit Listened New York Times Bestseller Cori Doerrfeld", which shows a drawn image of a young child in blue and white striped clothing hugging a brown rabbit with an off white background.

The Rabbit Listened

Cori Doerrfeld

Book Cover with the text "Big Red Lollipop by Rukhsana Khan illustrated by Sophie Blackall" and which has a drawn image of a brown haired girl in a blue with white polkadot shirt holding up a large red circular lollipop in front of her eye.

Big Red Lollipop

Rukhsana Khan