Bookspring Launching Children Into A World Of Reading

Leo Migdal

-Dec 12, 2025, 7:20 AM

bookspring launching children into a world of reading

You’ve reached the limit of 10 donations. Proceed to checkout or stay on this page. Welcome New Client: BookSpring - The More Than Giving Company is excited to welcome our new client, BookSpring: Envision with us: a world of families reading and succeeding together BookSpring builds early literacy in... BookSpring is the leading Central Texas organization focusing on building literacy skills and the motivation to read through increasing home libraries and reading aloud activities for children. With over 45 years of experience, BookSpring has taken the best practices of our founding programs and adapted them to the unique needs of Central Texas low-income families. We provide a continuum of early literacy interventions through a theory of change that supports brain development, family interaction, skill-building, and the motivation to read in children from birth through age 12.

For more information on BookSpring, please visit: https://lnkd.in/eFBTxi3 #newclient #themorethangivingco #bookspring What a help Dana has been so far! Thank you so much for your service! A Junior League of Austin community placement spotlight. We have all heard the saying “reading is fundamental”’— and it’s true! But the Austin-area nonprofit, BookSpring takes this saying and puts it into action.

A community partner of The Junior League of Austin (JLA), BookSpring’s mission is to build literacy skills and motivation to read in kids younger than 12 from low-income families by increasing home libraries and... As a former BookSpring volunteer, I saw firsthand how they achieved this goal through the distribution of hundreds of thousands of free books and the hours of recorded, interactive content available on their website. The reading disparity between low-income and affluent families is substantial. In the first 4 years of their life, a child from a low-income area hears an average of 30 million fewer words than a child from an affluent area. They also have significantly less access to books in the home, with about one age-appropriate book available to every 300 children in low-income neighborhoods. To combat these statistics, BookSpring helps fill the gap by partnering with local community-based programs and schools to provide children with free books for their home and engaging reading activities online.

You don’t have to be a JLA member to volunteer at BookSpring. With opportunities in-person and online, anyone who loves reading or is passionate about children’s literacy can easily find a way to participate. Here are the most popular ways to volunteer: You can also donate your gently used books directly to BookSpring to share your favorite stories with a new audience. Keep in mind that quality is important, as these books are meant to be added to home libraries and used for years to come. If your books are a little too worn—for example, they have missing, ripped, or stained pages—then they will be donated directly to Goodwill.

Finding a good home for my daughter’s old books, especially new ones she quickly outgrew, was an added perk of my time at BookSpring.

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Finding a good home for my daughter’s old books, especially new ones she quickly outgrew, was an added perk of my time at BookSpring.