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1,000 Books Before Kindergarten is part of Cedar Rapids Reads, which seeks to make Cedar Rapids a city of literacy.
The program complements other library early literacy initiatives, including Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which sends monthly free books to children in Cedar Rapids from birth to five-years-old, and the Growing Readers challenge, which encourages developing a reading routine during pregnancy.