Wee Read Berkshire County

The Berkshire Compact for Education is working together with the early childhood providers and libraries of Berkshire County and the Berkshire United Way's Early Childhood Think Tank to offer the second annual Wee Read Berkshire County in April.  The initiative is designed to promote the importance of early childhood literacy and reading to children.  Reading events revolving around the book Duck on a Bike by David Shannon will be held throughout Berkshire County.  We will distribute 1,500 copies of the book to children at StoryWalks* in downtown areas, library reading hours and other special events along with a customized bookmark with family reading tips.  The program builds upon Pittsfield's Wee Read initiative as well as early literacy programs that have been developed throughout the Berkshires. 

Click here for 2012 Wee Read Schedule of Events - check back often as the schedule will be continually upated.

  WATCH Pittsfield's Wee Read video, a great demonstration about how to engage a young child in books!

Collaborating Organizations: 
Berkshire Compact for Education
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Berkshire Athenaeum and the libraries of  Berkshire County
Berkshire County Head Start
Child Care of the Berkshires
Berkshire Children and Families
Pittsfield Wee Read
The Berkshire United Way's Early Childhood Think Tank
Pittsfield Community Partnership for Children
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
The Coordinated Community Engagement Coordinators of North County, Pittsfield and South County

 * The StoryWalk® Project was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, Vermont and developed in collaboration with the Vermont Bicycle & Pedestrian Coalition and the Kellogg-Hubbard Library.