Making Books a Birthright.
We enroll under age five year olds to receive new age-appropriate books by mail monthly until they turn 5 at no cost to their families.
Inscribimos a niños menores de cinco años para que reciban mensualmente por correo libros nuevos y apropiados para su edad hasta que cumplan 5 años, sin costo alguno para sus familias.
The BBBP is small nonprofit. We are a Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Partner.
BBBP es una pequeña organización sin fines de lucro. Somos socios de la Biblioteca de la Imaginación de Dolly Parton.
2025 numbers are in!
26,929 books were mailed in our two Programs. 2766 children got them, most a book each month. New enrollees and those who turned in age 5 got fewer. The average was 9.7 books. Not too shabby!
For enrollments go to Enrollments We serve / Servimos a
Berkeley+Emeryville & Richmond+San Pablo
Para inscribir a los niños, diríjase a Inscripción
The BBBP pays Imagination Library for books mailed to children we enroll. We fundraise independently to pay those invoices — along with all other costs of our stand-alone 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
El programa BBBP paga a Imagination Library por los libros que se envían por correo a los niños que inscribimos. Recaudamos fondos de forma independiente para pagar esas facturas, además de todos los demás gastos de nuestra organización sin fines de lucro 501(c)3.
2025 Survey results! There is a comments field too, lots of them:)
“Love receiving the books and how different they are every month. My child LOVED good night gorilla, she loved it so much I inally hid it for a while because we would end up reading it 10-15 times a day! She now enjoys receiving & opening the books herself & leafing through it on her own before we read it together” (repetition strengthens neural connections that support fluent literacy!)
“My son gets excited he’s getting mail, makes it fun to read more.”
WHY WE DO THIS WORK
Literacy is a cornerstone of social justice and equity. A person with weak or no literacy cannot fully access and participate in our society’s movements, institutions and systems.
Lack of literacy leaves a person functionally handicapped.
We want all children to grow up and become full participants in shaping their future, their world. We need them to be literate. Research shows: having books in the home from the start predicts Kindergarten Readiness better than any other data.
POR QUÉ HACEMOS ESTE TRABAJOLa alfabetización es fundamental para la justicia social y la equidad. Una persona con escasa o nula alfabetización no puede acceder ni participar plenamente en los movimientos, instituciones y sistemas de nuestra sociedad.
La falta de alfabetización supone una discapacidad funcional.
Queremos que todos los niños crezcan y participen plenamente en la construcción de su futuro y de su mundo. Necesitamos que sean alfabetizados. Las investigaciones demuestran que tener libros en casa desde la infancia predice la preparación para el jardín de infancia mejor que cualquier otro factor.