Press
Stories about Access Books have appeared in local and national media, reflecting interest in our work to expand access to books and transform school libraries in underserved communities across Southern California and beyond.
The coverage featured here includes interviews, news reports, and partnerships with trusted outlets. These pieces help show how reading spaces matter, why access to books is essential, and how community involvement makes lasting impact possible.
Explore our press coverage below to see how journalists and storytellers have shared the Access Books mission.
Recent Highlights
Below you’ll find stories including:
- A bilingual literacy partnership with the Los Angeles Times that encourages reading for children and families.
- Coverage of Access Books on KTLA, where our work and mission reached a broad Southern California audience.
- Reports on how libraries in underserved communities are transformed through donated books and volunteer support.
- CNN and Rewire features that examine the gaps in book access and why library revitalization matters for students.
You can browse the full list of press articles and stories below.:
https://people.com/human-interest/college-professer-brings-books-to-disadvantaged-schools/
https://toughcitywriter.blogspot.com/2010/09/canadian-writers-and-books-boost.html?m=1
https://www.oprah.com/angelnetwork/access-books-use-your-life-award
Literacy partnership with LA Times
When children read, they discover new places and new ideas. They develop literacy skills they will continue to use as they make their way through high school and beyond. To encourage youth literacy, Access Books partnered with the LA Times to create this bilingual...
Nonprofit Access Books transforming libraries and lives
Thanks KTLA!
Access Books provides books for schools in minority communities
This organization has been transforming libraries in public schools of vulnerable communities for 20 years. With the goal that all children have the same opportunity to discover the magic of books, Access Books provides books for schools in minority communities and...
How a better library can change a child’s life.
CNN, October 19, 2017 By Allie Torgan Los Angeles (CNN) -- In 1999, Rebecca Constantino began doing a study at schools across Los Angeles. One day, she saw something that stopped her in her tracks. She had just completed a Ph.D. in language, literacy and learning,...
Access Books Revives Libraries in Book Deserts
Rewire, Oct. 17, 2017 By Jim Newberry The best way to learn to read is by reading, research has shown. And a student leaving kindergarten with a good grasp of reading and writing sentences is commonly considered a key indicator for college and career readiness down...
Libraries Transform Lives
Language Magazine - April 2016 Rebecca Constantino recounts the story of how funding an inner-city school’s library changed the whole dynamic of a family Marilyn is a gregarious, loquacious, and active 4th grader at a school in south Los Angeles nestled near the 110...
Access Books Featured on KNBC
December 27, 2015 - NBC Los Angeles By Tad Chen An elementary school in Watts battling dwindling resources found a unique partnership that is giving their community new hope, and students an advantage, by turning to books and not iPads to help children learn. At the...
Kinney, Pilkey, Pastis, and Peirce Raise Money for LA School Libraries
School Library Journal - June 17, 2015 By Lauren Barack With Timmy Failure, Greg Heffley, Captain Underpants, and Big Nate at your aid, anything, at least kid-related, seems possible. That’s exactly the hope of authors Stephan Pastis, Jeff Kinney, Dav Pilkey, and...