Epic! is completely free for teachers and librarians. This digital reading platform for kids 12 and under with more than 40,000 high-quality and award-winning fiction and nonfiction books, audio books, and videos from 250 publishers. Vooks is always free for teachers’ classroom use on one device. Vooks is an entire library of storybooks brought to life through animation, read-aloud narration, engaging music and sound, and read-along text. Multicultural Children's Book Day provides teachers with free, diverse, inclusive, and multicultural books for their classroom libraries. Anyone may take a book or bring a book to share. Through its Impact Library Program, Little Free Library provides no-cost Little Free Library book exchanges to communities where books are scarce. Little Free Library is a place to find a book or bring a book to share! Find Little Free Libraries in neighborhoods all over the world, all with different offerings. You do not have to be a school or teacher to qualify. Reading Resource Project books come in sets of 100 books per set and any literacy-based effort qualifies for these books. Literacy Empowerment Foundation’s Reading Resource Project offers free books to recipients who can pay shipping, handling, and administrative costs. Make a request to become a donation recipient. Grants provide up to $2,000 per educator and can be used toward buying diverse titles, hosting diversity-focused student or community events, diversity audits of existing collections, or any other project that supports diverse literature.īetter World Books receives books from libraries, booksellers, book drives, and through community Drop Boxes, and then sells what they can to raise money for literacy, donate books in good condition, and recycle the balance. To help children find stories and authors that they can relate to, We Need Diverse Books’ Educators Making a Difference Grants are for educators who believe in the importance of incorporating diverse books by diverse authors into their schools, libraries, and educational organizations. The benefits of registering with First Book include free books from the First Book National Book Bank, low-cost books and resources from the First Book Marketplace at 50-90 percent off retail price, and potential funding from First Book’s corporate partners and generous donors. First Book is a non-profit that provides new books and educational resources to schools and programs serving children in need, from birth to age 18.