Read Aloud Schools and Communities from across the state are helping to get brand new books into the hands of children who need them the most! With the help of teachers, librarians, media specialists and First Book, Read Aloud Nebraska has been able to distribute over 30,000 books to children in the following communities:
Arapahoe
Arnold
Ashland
Bassett
Battle Creek
Beatrice
Beaver City
Bellevue
Blair
Blue Hill
Bridgeport
Broken Bow
Burwell
Cambridge
Central City
Ceresco
Chambers
Clarks
Clearwater
Cozad
Creighton
Crete
Culbertson
Dodge
Dorchester
Elba
Elgin
Fairbury
Fairfield
Falls City
Firth
Fremont
Geneva
Genoa
Gering
Gibbon
Gordon
Grand Island
Hastings
Hebron
Howells
Kearney
La Vista
Leigh
Lexington
Lincoln
Linwood
Madison
McCook
McCool Junction
Mead
Morrill
Nebraska City
Neligh
Nelson
Newman Grove
Niobrara
North Platte
Ogallala
Omaha
O’Neill
Orchard
Palisade
Palmer
Papillion
Pierce
Plainview
Ponca
Ralston
Ravenna
Raymond
Red Cloud
Rushville
Schuyler
Scotia
Scottsbluff
Seward
Shell Creek
South Sioux City
Stromsburg
Tekamah
Tilden
Valparaiso
Verdigre
Wahoo
Wakefield
Walthill
Walton
Wausa
Wilbur
Wilson
York
Yutan
- through local food pantries
- to children of teen parents
- through the free & reduced lunch program
- at family reading nights
- through “Backpack Programs”
- through Habitat for Humanity
- in Christmas baskets for families in need
One heart-warming story shared with us from the Kearney Literacy Council is about the six year old boy pictured below:
“He was so excited about the books we had chosen for him that the director [of the Kearney Habitat for Humanity] called me about 10:00 pm. that night to tell me that he was sprawled on the living room floor of this still empty house, lining up HIS books in the order that he wanted his Mom to read them to him!”
