Mountain Readers Become Leaders

Mountain Readers is a new literacy initiative designed to celebrate and foster a love of reading in children across West Virginia.

Mountain Readers Week is Oct. 2-6, 2023.

Participants will read this year’s book Fallingwater by West Virginia authors Marc Harshman and Anna Egan Smucker to children in all 55 counties.

If you have any questions, please email us at education@wvpublic.org.

Browse below for additional resources.

2023 Mountain Readers Videos

Coming Soon — 2024 PBS Kids Writers Contest

In January, we’ll begin accepting submissions for the 2024 PBS Kids Writers Contest!

This annual event at West Virginia Public Broadcasting is a competition that encourages West Virginia children in grades K-5 to explore the power of creativity by writing and illustrating their own stories.

To learn more and see past winners, click here.

WVPB 2023 Reader’s Choice: Detective Rabbit and the Lost Diamond of Doom by Boone Schneeberger