Enjoy everyone's favorite, Mary Poppins, on Broadway and help Behind the Book continue to bring reading engagement programs to NYC schools.

See the Broadway play... PLUS! Goody bags for the kids and a chance to have your photo taken with Mary Poppins!

May 20 at 1 pm
New Amsterdam Theater

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Sunday, June 3 – Behind Brooklyn: A Scavenger Hunt
Join us for a literary scavenger hunt through Brooklyn's best bars and bookstores. Click for tickets and information.

Thursday, June 28 – A Wine Tasting
Join us at Moore Brothers Wine Company for hors d'oeuvres and a tutored wine tasting, with special guest Alex Gilvarry, author of From the Memoirs of a Non-enemy Combatant. Click for ticket information.

The Behind the Book Reading Series at KGB Bar takes place the second Thursday of every month. Check out who's reading next!

Behind The Book's mission is to motivate young people to become engaged readers by connecting them to contemporary writers and illustrators. We bring authors and their books into individual classrooms to build literacy skills and create a community of life-long readers and writers. Our programs take place in underserved K-12 public schools, are part of the class curricula and meet the Common Core Standards.

Join our Young Executive Board.  Learn More.

If you are interested in VOLUNTEERING, please visit: I'd like to volunteer.

Watch author and poet, Tony Medina, in action at one of our schools:

 

Check out what our students are saying about our programs:

 

Learn more about this program here.

New York State Council on the Arts

Korein Family Foundation

M. L. Greer Family Foundation

To view our 2010 Elementary School Initiative evaluation, click here.

To view the results of our 2008 program-wide evaluation, conducted by Dr. Horowitz of Columbia University, click here.

To view our 2009 Annual Report, click here.

To read more Buzz, click here.