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Books from Birth

Welcome to Books from Birth!

Congratulations on your new little reader! Click below to find local and national resources to enhance your family's literacy journey.

Where did you receive your box?

UNC Health Southeastern Regional Hospital, NC

Maynard Children's Hospital

Greenville, NC

VA Baby Shower

Scotland Memorial Hospital, NC

Woman's Hospital Baton Rouge, LA

Columbia Memorial Hospital, Oregon

Memorial Hospital South Bend, IN

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Eastern North Carolina

Library Directory

Find a library near you!

Robeson County Play & Learn Groups

Seeds 4 Success facilitates Kaleidoscope Play and Learn Groups for children birth through five and their caregivers not enrolled in full-time regulated childcare. Weekly play groups are held using culturally-and developmentally-appropriate play activities. Facilitators guide and model conversation, peer-to-peer learning and hands-on experience that provide parents with tools to use at home to support children’s learning and healthy development.

Exploration Station

Click below to learn more about visiting Robeson County's Interactive Children's Museum whose mission is to engage young children through creative and diverse experiences, exhibits, and educational programming to foster life-long learning.

The Smart Start Resource Center

The Robeson County Partnership for Children supports families and children through their various programs and community events. Click below to learn about visiting the Resource Center and checking out high-quality educational tools!

Family Connects NC Southeastern Region

Click below to browse the learning resources curated for parents of newborn by Family Connects NC and the Partnership for Children of Cumberland County.

Martin-Pitt Partnership Lending Library, Greenville NC

Books and other resources available to check out for families with newborns and young children. 111 Eastbrook Drive, Greenville, NC 27858

Pitt County Bookmobile

Provides books and other library services. Check out their schedule, updated monthly.

Central North Carolina

Library Directory

Find a library near you!

Durham’s Partnership for Children

They lead community strategies for children birth to age 5 and their families that promote healthy development and learning and enhance access to high quality care.

Book Harvest Family Space

Visit the Family Space in Durham, a community hub filled with free books for children. Book Harvest also offers a suite of programs, multiple events throughout the year, and more!

The Down East Partnership for Children

Provides programming and resources for children and families in Nash and Edgecombe Counties.

Family Reading Partners, Orange County NC

Mentors visit families in their homes or at community sites bringing with them new, high-quality, age-appropriate books at each visit.

Scotland County Partnership

The Scotland County Partnership for Children and Families supports families with young children through various programs and events. Connect to enroll to receive free books at home, learn more about safety at home, or join them for a storytime.

Oregon

Library Directory

Find a library near you!

Northwest Regional Early Learning Hub

Provides resources and tools for parents with children from birth through age 5. They offer resource guides by county, information on kindergarten registration and updates about state and regional early learning initiatives.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

East Baton Rouge Parish Library

1000 Books Before Kindergarten! It doesn't matter if your child is three, or just three months - there's no better time to start than now! Reading helps build social and emotional skills, sparks creativity and imagination, promotes bonding, and helps kids do well overall in school. So start your child's reading journey by signing up today!

Louisiana Department of Education

Provides a list of Family Literacy Resources for use in infancy and beyond. Resources are available in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, French, and Chinese. 

EBR Early Childhood Community Network

Use this resource to find early childhood initiatives for children birth to 4 years old. Explore the "At Home Learning" toolbox created to support early learning at home from infancy to age 4. 

Prime Time Family Reading

For children 3 and up, Prime Time brings literacy programs to families throughout Louisiana.

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Free children's books delivered to your home, administered by the Volunteers of America of South Central Louisiana. 

 

To better prepare Louisiana’s young children for successful literacy in kindergarten, VOA’s Partnerships in Child Care program has teamed up with the Dolly Parton Imagination Library to provide children birth to age 5 with a free high quality age-appropriate book mailed directly to their home each month, no matter their family’s income.  

The Center for Literacy and Learning

CLL’s mission is to advance literacy and learning through evidence-based practices in classrooms, homes, and communities. The center’s Louisiana Reads initiative addresses the literacy crisis through comprehensive strategies, fostering at-home reading opportunities. 

South Bend, Indiana

Brain Train

A free program through Family & Children's Center offering St. Joseph County parents of children under five individual and group play sessions to support developmental milestones and strengthen parent-child relationships.

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Administered locally by the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County, this program mails a free, age-appropriate new book each month to any child in St. Joseph County from birth until age five to promote early childhood literacy.

St. Joe Library Storytimes

The St. Joseph County Public Library offers a suite of free early literacy programs — including Babytime, Storytime, Playtime, and Sensory Time — for children ages 0–5, combining books, songs, movement, and play to build school readiness skills.

Talk With Your Baby (TWYB) 

Talk With Your Baby (TWYB) classes available for expecting parents, parents, and caregivers of little ones aged 0 to 3 in St. Joseph, Elkhart, and LaPorte counties. Learn about the importance of frequent interaction through talking, singing, and playing with your baby and gain practical, evidence-based strategies you can use every day. 

Families First Center

Families First Center offers evidence-based parenting classes — including Nurturing Parenting, Active Parenting, and Triple P — that equip caregivers with practical skills in child development, positive discipline, and emotional connection, open to all parents whether joining voluntarily or through a court or agency referral. 

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About Us

Since 2011, Book Harvest has provided more than three million books to families, ensuring that parents have the tools and power to ignite and strengthen their children's literacy. With programs that are grounded in evidence, Book Harvest believes that literacy starts at birth, in the home, powered by parents, and nourished with books.

Book Harvest's 2024 IRS 990 is available here.

Book Harvest's most recent audit is here.

Connect With Us

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2501 University Drive, Durham, NC 27707

Business Hours: Monday-Friday 9 AM - 5 PM
Family Space: Tuesday-Saturday 9 AM - 5 PM

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