Ready4K

Is your child ready for Kindergarten? Parents with young children can sign up to receive weekly text messages with age-appropriate facts, tips, and opportunities to boost your child’s learning. Learn more

Reading Check Up

Get a FREE individual reading plan for your PreK-3rd grade child in as little as 20 minutes! They take two short quizzes, get their results, and then choose fun activities to practice reading at home. After six weeks of practice, the child takes the quizzes again and you get updated results and new activities. 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 Card

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

Is your child ready for Kindergarten? Parents with young children can sign up to receive weekly text messages with age-appropriate facts, tips, and opportunities to boost your child’s learning. Learn more

Reading Check Up

Get a FREE individual reading plan for your PreK-3rd grade child in as little as 20 minutes! They take two short quizzes, get their results, and then choose fun activities to practice reading at home. After six weeks of practice, the child takes the quizzes again and you get updated results and new activities. 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 Card

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