Reach Out and Read Rhode Island

10/08/2026

A fun afternoon with Blackstone Valley Community Health Care!

10/06/2026

🎉 We Did It—Together! 📚❤️

We recently celebrated the incredible success of our Target Circle Guest-Directed Giving campaign, and we couldn’t be more grateful to the Reach Out and Read Rhode Island community!
Thanks to your votes, shares, and support, Reach Out and Read Rhode Island received nearly 30,000 votes from Target guests, resulting in a $3,076.11 grant to support our mission! 🎉

Thank you to everyone who voted, shared our posts, spread the word, and encouraged others to participate. Your support amplified our mission and introduced Reach Out and Read Rhode Island to new audiences.

Together, we’re helping make Rhode Island a place where every child is read to every day. 📚

10/05/2026

We were honored to be a part of the NICU Follow-Up Reunion at Women and Infants Hospital on Sunday. Families of 4-year-old NICU graduates came for an afternoon of crafts, snacks, activities and a magic show. We even saw a few a few familiar faces! And of course, every child (and mouse) went home with a book 📚❤🌟 Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island

10/02/2026

Check out these fun events at the Pawtucket Public Library this month!

Lots of fun programs to celebrate both Hispanic Heritage Month and Halloween in October!

10/01/2026

We are always excited to see new books! We were delighted to browse through this sample box of books from , one of our wonderful book vendors, along with their new catalog. Watch for some new titles coming to a RORRI site near you!

09/23/2026

Home is a tired lullaby
and a late-night traffic that mumbles in
through a crack in your curtains.

Home is the faint trumpet of a distant barge
as your grandfather casts his line
from the edge of his houseboat.

So begins this stirring celebration of home in its many forms. For home is an idea more profound than the walls we build up around ourselves. It’s the family that shows its love through small gestures every day. It’s the community that sees one another through hard times. And it’s the wonder of the natural world, a refuge we share with every living thing on Earth.

With lyrical text and expressive artwork, Matt de la Peña and Loren Long’s meditation on the universal pull of home, whatever its form, is destined to become a new classic that will be cherished by readers of every age.

HOME is part of a curated collection of books provided through the generous support of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island. In partnership with The Greatest Eight, a free digital resource that helps parents teach young children (birth through 8 years) eight core skill for a lifetime of mental wellness, we have selected books that reflect these skills:

🌟Communication
🌟Identifying and Understanding Feelings
🌟Balancing Emotions
🌟Problem Solving
🌟Coping and Resilience
🌟Conflict Management and Resolution
🌟Self-Perceived Competence
🌟Diversity Awareness & Respect.

We selected HOME for the ways it highlights several of these essential skills including coping and resilience and diversity awareness and respect. To learn more more about Greatest Eight visit: https://www.thegreatest8.org/

09/23/2026

Reading aloud works best when it becomes a normal part of family life rather than something that only happens when there is a reading assignment.

09/18/2026

There is another benefit that is easy to overlook. Reading together gives parents and children time to talk. Those conversations are an important part of helping children understand what they read.

09/16/2026

This big kid is wearing his first pair of big-kid shoes, the kind with laces! Even though they’re a little on the roomy side—shoes to grow into, of course—he knows he can take care of them. Except they keep falling off!

Not to worry, he’ll just tie them up again, because he knows how to tie those loops! But wait a second, where did that darn shoe go?

Nothing is ever truly easy when you’re just starting something new; but, just like with any stage in childhood, whether it’s making your first steps, or going down the really big slide, with persistence, doing anything scary or overwhelming quickly becomes a piece of cake! And before you know it, you’re a BIG KID!

Loops, by Caldecott honor and Geisel honor-winning author-illustrator Jashar Awan, is part of a curated collection of books provided through the generous support of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island. In partnership with The Greatest Eight, a free digital resource that helps parents teach young children (birth through 8 years) eight core skill for a lifetime of mental wellness, we have selected books that reflect these skills:

🌟Communication
🌟Identifying and Understanding Feelings
🌟Balancing Emotions
🌟Problem Solving
🌟Coping and Resilience
🌟Conflict Management and Resolution
🌟Self-Perceived Competence
🌟Diversity Awareness & Respect.

We selected Loops to highlight the essential skill of problem solving. Problem solving is a critical skill that is useful in almost any situation. As parents, we can’t always be there to solve every problem for our children. In fact, it is our job to teach our children how to solve problems for themselves. This way, they can become confident, independent, and successful individuals. Taking the time to build your child’s problem-solving skills, rather than intervening, can not only improve their ability to settle conflict with others, but can also lead to school successes and improved mental health. So take a step back, and teach your child how to resolve any problem they encounter!

09/11/2026