About Jumpstart
Since 1993, Jumpstart has been working toward the day every child in America enters school prepared to succeed. Through bringing at-risk preschool children and caring adults together in intensive, year-long relationships, we have been . . .

About Jumpstart
Since 1993, Jumpstart has been working toward the day every child in America enters school prepared to succeed. Through bringing at-risk preschool children and caring adults together in intensive, year-long relationships, we have been able to build the vital literacy, social, and emotional skills children need to thrive. Jumpstart delivers a research-based, best practice curriculum to nearly 13,000 preschoolers in close to 70 communities across 20 states in America.

The number of books in a home is the single strongest indicator of a child's future reading ability setting him or her on a track for success in school and in life. However, most children in low income communities have few, if any, age appropriate books in their homes. Our annual Jumpstart's Read for the Record is a campaign designed to bring attention to the importance of early education. By encouraging hundreds of thousands of children and adults to read the same book on the same day, Jumpstart aims to break a world record and to make early education a national priority.

Children and adults will read Corduroy together at events nationwide on October 2, in schools, libraries, stores, hotels, playgrounds, offices, and homes.

Your donations can provide at risk preschoolers with their own personal copy of this book. Go to readfortherecord.org to learn more.