Family Literacy

Children’s Literature for Parenting
We promote family literacy and provide parenting education for teen mothers and fathers through our innovative Children’s Literature for Parenting series.

Young parents are inspired to read to their children through their own developing love of reading, and through these structured workshop sessions. They learn to make books come alive for their children by reading in an interactive style and engaging them in the reading process. We teach them to make reading a joyful, fun experience.

Teen parents also learn to use reading as a way to connect with their children and foster their emotional, social and cognitive development.

We give them wonderful children’s books, classics like Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and new favorites such as Homemade Love by bell hooks, to help them build children’s libraries in their own homes.

Children’s books we are using now…

• No Mirrors in My Nana’s House by Ysaye M. Barnwell
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
• Snowmen at Night by Caralyn & Mark Buehner
• I Like Me! by Nancy L. Carlson
• 10 Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• Mr. Seahorse by Eric Carle
• Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Edward R. Emberley
• Barnyard Banter by Denise Fleming
• Come on Rain! by Karen Hesse
• Homemade Love by bell hooks
• The Colors of Us by Karen Katz
• The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
• Only One You by Linda Kranz
• Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee & Tonya Lewis Lee
• Swimmy by Leo Leonni
• Chica Chica Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. & Eric Carle
• We’ve All Got Bellybuttons! by David Martin
• A Bird About to Sing by Laura Nyman Montenegro
• Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport
• Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
• The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
• David Smells!: A Diaper David Book by David Shannon
• Your Body Belongs to You by Cornelia Spelman
• Read to Your Bunny by Rosemary Wells
• Bear Stays Up for Christmas by Karma Wilson