Please Read To Me

by Pam Leo, Charlotte Agell (Illustrator), Abby Carter (Illustrator)

Please Read To Me features the poem of the same name by Pam Leo, a family literacy activist. It is illustrated by 9 Maine youth and adult artists. This collaborative book shares the importance of reading to children with bright, playful, and engaging illustrations. It is a multicultural board book, with a Dyslexie font, printed by Pint Size Productions, the only US printer of board books, and is dedicated to Dolly Parton in honor of her Imagination Library.

Every copy of the book sold benefits Bring Books to Life.

Board Book

Published January 1, 2021

About the author

Pam Leo is an independent scholar in human development, a parent educator, a certified childbirth educator, a doula, a parent, and a grandparent.

"After my first child was born in 1972, it became my passion to understand human behavior. I began to study child development, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. I wanted to learn why we are each born as a tiny innocent being, and some of us grow up to be a Mahatma Gandhi while others become an Adolf Hitler. What determines the difference? I was determined to find out."

"If I had to put into one sentence all that I have learned about optimal human development and parenting it would be this: our effectiveness as parents is in direct proportion to the strength of the bond we have with our child. Securing and maintaining that bond is our primary work as parents and is the key to optimal human development."