Reach Out and Read In the News

Our Commitment to Racial Equity
As our nation reckons with systemic racism and the deep and historic inequities that have long existed, the Reach Out and Read community reckons with our role and our responsibility to take action. We often talk about our platform – a platform for opportunity for children in the earliest years and months of life. And yet that […]
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At 15, Kyliegh Curran is already an accomplished young actress starring opposite Ewan McGregor in the supernatural thriller, “Doctor Sleep,” in 2019. Most recently, she has landed the lead role of Harper, a bright-eyed mystery-obsessed teen, in Disney Channel’s first-ever time-travel mystery series “Secrets of Sulphur Springs,” set to debut on January 15, 2021. In […]

When a father of a newborn sits quietly in a rocker with his son swaddled tightly and reads Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney, something magical happens. A bond grows between them through book sharing, connecting the two of them emotionally and physically. This connection grows every time they read together, building […]

I love the idea of passing on traditions to my children. However, as a pediatric resident in a vigorous program, with two rambunctious kids under four and a dog in the midst of a mid-life crisis, who’s also trying to be a present wife, daughter, sister, friend, and colleague, I’ll be the first to admit […]

My passion for reading was nurtured early in life by my parents, who had a gift for storytelling. This love of learning that I grew up with drives me to provide the same for my patients at Milestone Pediatrics in Atlanta, GA through the Reach out and Read Program. In October 2015, my dad passed […]

Join National Medical Director Dr. Perri Klass in a conversation about science, public health, and the fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring, and the way we live. Dr. Klass will be joined by Dr. Eileen Costello for a rich conversation on the findings in Klass’s recently published book, A Good Time to Be […]