Reach Out and Read Kansas City

How would you feel if you grew up unable to enjoy a bedtime story? In Kansas City’s lowest income neighborhoods, research estimates only one book is owned, in the home, per 300 children. Reach out and Read Kansas City is working hard to ensure all children in the Kansas City area have a book to call their own.

Each year, Reach Out and Read Kansas City provides 65,210 new, culturally and developmentally appropriate books to 26,000 low-income children, birth to age 5, during well-child visits at our partner clinic sites, building a 15-book library for each child before he or she enters kindergarten.