Keep Books®
Keep Books are an affordable option to build take-home book programs for children from pre‑K to second grade that are meaningful and purposeful.
Children will enjoy reading these grade-appropriate books in class and taking them home to re-read. Sending Keep Books home provides extra reading, helps children see themselves as successful readers and builds a bridge between a child’s most important worlds—school and home.
Our books have the text features students need as they develop as readers. Many are leveled and ideal for use in guided reading or independent classroom reading.
When children take Keep Books home they have increased access to quality texts and school-to-home connections deepen.
Join us in making an impact
Making a donation to Keep Books, no matter how small, allows us to support schools and engage in meaningful community partnerships.
Learn about a powerful partnership that helps children access books at home. With your support, programs like Books and Badges—created by Jamie Lipp at Ohio State with the Columbus Division of Police—can continue to strengthen literacy in our community.
Officers have delivered over 17,000 Keep Books to Columbus City Schools.
Thanks to significant donor support to Keep Books, we have been able to provide thousands of our books to schools and other organizations that serve children.
Samples
Fill out the request form to receive a small sample of Keep Books. Explore how they support your students and help strengthen the connection between school and home.
All new decodable sets
Our new decodable Keep Books are designed with the latest research insights ensuring that early readers build strong foundational skills while having fun!
Why choose decodable Keep Books?
- Home-School Connection: Decodable Keep Books provide extra reading, help children see themselves as successful readers and build a bridge between a child’s most important worlds—school and home.
- Affordable Option: These inexpensive texts provide increased access to decodable texts for children.
- Phonics-Focused: Each book is carefully crafted to align with specific phonics lessons, helping children master letter-sound relationships and decoding skills.
- Engaging Stories: Our books feature captivating stories that keep young readers excited and motivated.
- Interactive Features: Read along with the author via QR code, comprehension practice, seek and find the phonics-focused words, write the phonics-focused words and more!
- Confidence Boosting: By providing texts that match their phonics knowledge, children experience success and build confidence with every page they turn.
- Research-Backed: Our approach is grounded in research, which emphasizes systematic, explicit phonics instruction as essential for developing proficient readers.
