Book fairs in action, read our annual impact report, and more!
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The Page Ahead book fairs have begun! Through the end of June, more than 20,000 children will select their twelve brand-new books to keep and read over the summer. The Book Up Summer program gives these young students the tools and incentive they need to read during summer vacation.
Grounded in current literacy research and made possible by donors like you, this evidence-based reading program is offered to elementary schools in communities of concentrated low income through Page Ahead’s partnerships with school districts across Washington state.
This year, new schools in the Franklin Pierce (Pierce County), Renton (King County), Sunnyside (Yakima County), and Columbia and Mary Walker (both Stevens County) school districts are joining Book Up Summer. Thank you to our amazing community for providing the support we need to expand this important program and provide home libraries for even more young readers!
We’d like to thank all of the donors who gave to Page Ahead for GiveBIG 2023! Thank you for making sure kids in need get a great start with reading. You helped raise more than $9,600—enough to give more than 190 children a home library for their own this summer! And you maxed out our $3,000 match challenge from generous Page Ahead supporters—THANK YOU!
Dear donor, you have all the books i love! I can’t wait to read outside on my swing. i can’t wait to learn obout all the animals! i’ll learn lots of things! the books aer Awesome!
—Wren
Read all about it: Page Ahead’s annual impact report for the 2021–22 school year is now available!
Find out about how the home libraries Page Ahead built for kids made a difference last year by visiting bit.ly/PA22report.
We would like to thank First Tech Federal Credit Union, the Adobe Foundation, and Coaching for Literacy for their recent generous grants. Between them all, they’ve built home libraries for 850 kids—that’s the equivalent of all the second graders we serve in the Highline school district. Thank you for your continued support to help students learn and grow!
The Phinneywood blog covered Page Ahead’s efforts to build home libraries and stop summer slide.
June 20, 2019
Page Ahead executive director Susan Dibble speaks with the Seattle Times Education Lab.
May 14, 2020
The Federal Way Mirror reports on Page Ahead’s Book Up Summer program in Federal Way.
July 1, 2020
