MAKE WAY FOR BOOKS promotes early literacy in limited resource areas of Tucson and southern Arizona by providing young children an opportunity to fall in love with books and reading.

Our vision is that all children will enter school with the necessary early literacy skills to be successful. Each child, regardless of socioeconomic status, race, or gender will have daily exposure to books and reading.

This website is an early literacy resource center for adults who wish to raise readers starting at birth. Early literacy is all of the things children know about reading before they can actually read.

A child's success in school correlates with being read to regularly and having books at home. It is one thing to teach a child to read, but it is quite another to teach a child to love reading. A love of books and reading provides the foundation for success in school and in life.

The best thing parents can do is not try to teach their children how to read at the youngest age possible. Instead, parents should engage their kids in enjoyable age-appropriate activities that help to develop essential reading readiness skills. This will not only provide a strong foundation for formal reading instruction later on, but will also be more likely to foster a life-long love of books in children.