Thanks to a Texas Literacy Initiative (TLI) grant, Arlington Public Library staff and AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers hosted a Reading is SNOW much FUN celebration featuring a lively crowd of students, child care staff, and families at the George W. Hawkes Central Library on Saturday, January 25.

Participants engaged in a morning full of fun interactive literacy activities: a special winter story time, parent writing workshops, book-walks, library tours with Read the Book Worm, and so much more! Families signed up for library cards, checked out books and viewed online resources such as TumbleBook Cloud Jr., and Mango Languages on the Tech LiNK.

The celebration was part of the Arlington Public Library (APL) and AISD partnership designed to support quality education for children at the earliest stages of learning. The TLI grant allows these two entities to extend library programs and resources to 16 AISD Community-Based Child Care Centers.

With the goal to support efforts to improve school readiness, library staff will provide bi-monthly story time programs and increase access to library resources for hundreds of children at AISD Community-Based Child Care Centers.

APL and AISD are working together to make Arlington better!