Parental involvement is key to a child's reading success story, and libraries are in the perfect position to provide the guidance needed for parents to embrace their role as their children's first and most enduring teacher. * Teaches librarians how to mentor parents, offering different strategies to make a child a reader for life * Includes a go-to list of books and materials to recommend and display * Offers programs that work to engage parents in their children's reading life * Shows how to make the library a center for education and learning