Tips, Guides & Books to Build Literacy Skills That Will Help Kids be Successful in School. Reading Together is a Powerful Way to Make a Difference in a Child’s Life. Learn More!

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library provides books, free of charge, to children living in Mecklenburg County until their 5th birthday. Each child receives one age-appropriate book in the mail each month. Sign up today!

Reach Out & Read

Reach Out and Read gives young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into well-care visits in pediatric offices. and encouraging families to read aloud together. Pediatric doctors, nurse practitioners, and other medical professionals incorporate books into well-care visits and encourage families to read aloud together. Find participating clinics near you.

The Basics Mecklenburg

80% of brain growth happens during the first three years of life. Everyday interactions between children, their parents, and other caregivers provide abundant opportunities to give children from every background a more equal start in life. Want to learn about the five fun, simple, and powerful ways that will help your child? Click here!

Meck Pre-K

A Mecklenburg County-funded program that offers a high-quality Pre-K experience to ensure children are prepared for kindergarten. Classrooms are located in 4 and 5-star child care centers and children attend a 6.5 hour school day program. Learn More

TumbleBook Library

TumbleBook Library is a collection of animated, talking picture books. that can be read by you or read to you! Access FREE storybooks, books in French and Spanish for language learning, read-along books, non-fiction books, puzzles and games, math stories and graphic novels all with your Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Card! Learn More

Tips, Guides & Books to Build Literacy Skills That Will Help Kids be Successful in School. Reading Together is a Powerful Way to Make a Difference in a Child’s Life. Learn more!

Child Care Resources

A private, non-profit child care resource and referral agency that works with families and communities to help ensure that children have access to high-quality, affordable early learning and school-age opportunities and experiences that enable them to succeed in school and in life. Learn More

Raising a Reader

Raising A Reader promotes literacy between parents and children by providing rotating bags of high-quality books to children enrolled in childcare centers, and by offering onsite early literacy workshops. Find a childcare facility

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library provides books, free of charge, to children living in Mecklenburg County until their 5th birthday. Each child receives one age-appropriate book in the mail each month. Sign up today!

Reach Out & Read

Reach Out and Read gives young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into well-care visits in pediatric offices. and encouraging families to read aloud together. Pediatric doctors, nurse practitioners, and other medical professionals incorporate books into well-care visits and encourage families to read aloud together. Find participating clinics near you.

The Basics Mecklenburg

80% of brain growth happens during the first three years of life. Everyday interactions between children, their parents, and other caregivers provide abundant opportunities to give children from every background a more equal start in life. Want to learn about the five fun, simple, and powerful ways that will help your child? Click here!

Meck Pre-K

A Mecklenburg County-funded program that offers a high-quality Pre-K experience to ensure children are prepared for kindergarten. Classrooms are located in 4 and 5-star child care centers and children attend a 6.5 hour school day program. Learn More

Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Meck County residents and property owners can get a FREE Library Card that can be used to check out books, e-books, audiobooks, and all types of streaming content. The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library also offers tutoring services and classes for the whole family.  Get your card

Hoopla

Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Card holders can borrow e-books, comics, audiobooks, music, movies and television — with no holds, and no waiting!  Content can be streamed to computers, tablets or smartphones, and can be downloaded to mobile devices to allow for offline viewing any time. Learn More

TumbleBook Library

TumbleBook Library is a collection of animated, talking picture books. that can be read by you or read to you! Access FREE storybooks, books in French and Spanish for language learning, read-along books, non-fiction books, puzzles and games, math stories and graphic novels all with your Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Card! Learn More