Funds will support their Storytime Program during the 2025-26 school year, helping to motivate and enhance reading readiness and provide 126,000+ new books for approximately 17,000 young children (and their teachers) who attend early childhood sites and kindergarten classrooms in low-income communities throughout the St. Louis metro region to foster a love of reading, while learning the essential early literacy skills required to become strong readers and lifelong learners.