Room to Read had its humble origins in Nepal in 2000, where we began bringing donated books to rural communities. Today, we are a global organization dedicated to promoting and enabling education through programs focused on literacy and gender equality in education.Our Reading Room program provides libraries to children so they can read and to explore. Our Local Language Publishing program allows children to read books in their mother tongue. Our School Room program gives children a safe place to learn. Our Girls’ Education program enables girls to enroll in and stay in school.  We currently work in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Nepal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Zambia– with plans to expand so we can bring educational opportunities and resources to children throughout the developing world. Room to Read’s programs have reached more than four million children so far and hopes to improve literacy for ten million children by 2015.  Imagine a world in which every child has access to an education. Room to Read is doing our best to make this dream a reality, one child at a time.During this term we will be collecting new, hard cover books from the following titles:

• Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock by Eric A. Kimmel
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do you See? by Bill Martin, Jr.
• Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Williams
• First 100 Animals by Roger Priddy
• First 100 Words by Roger Priddy
• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstien
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
• Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
• One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
• The Rainbow Fish by Marcus P-ster
• The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
• Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang
• Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel
• Tuesday by Davie Wiesner
• The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak