With personalized recommendations and a constant rotating supply of books, helping your kids read more has never been easier.
BookPig is the easiest way to find books your kids will love. Enter a book they liked and we will recommend more like it. Search by their favorite authors or favorite series. Let us know what books they like and dislike and our system "learns" their reading level and preference and recommends books they’ll love.
Using BookPig is like putting reading achievement on autopilot. Build a queue of books your kids want to read and watch them go! Books are delivered to your door once or twice per month. Enjoy them as long as you like, return them and get more when you’re ready.
Every child gets their own reading account. They rate and choose the books they want and get personalized book recommendations. When your kids are ready, you can give them their own login so they have complete control – we only offer children’s books and their ability to choose is filtered by age and reading level so they only see books that are appropriate. Letting kids choose their own books is a great way to keep them interested in reading.
BookPig saves you money through all stages of raising a reader. Raising children can be expensive and we make it easy to invest in your child's success by providing them with a great selection of books. BookPig exposes them a huge variety of books for a fraction of the cost of buying them. They start as early readers exploring picture books and before you know it they are teenagers exploring their own unique interests. BookPig has reading plans just right for your family.
Avid Readers read 10-20 books per month and trying to keep up can cost parents $100's of dollars – most don’t even realize until they’re looking at shelves full of books that were read once. BookPig can keep these readers in the books they want at less than half the price.
For younger children, the key to developing a love of reading is keeping a diverse supply of books on hand and letting kids explore and develop their own reading preferences. Some books will be read over and over, some not at all, and every child will be different. But at $8-$15 for picture books, keeping a diverse supply is expensive and buying a book your child ends up not being interested in becomes a costly proposition. BookPig lets you keep the books your kids like as long as they want and return the ones they don’t for the next set.
The reading habits of casual readers vary dramatically from child to child. Keeping them into books is about finding books they’ll like and keeping the next one on hand ready for them. Personalized recommendations and ratings/reviews by other kids are the best way to encourage them to want books, and our flexible plans make it affordable to keep a supply on hand that’s just right for your casual readers.
Don’t get us wrong, we LOVE our local libraries, but are they cheaper? Driving to the library costs money. Getting put on a wait list means another trip. Return a books a few days late and fees quickly add up. With increasing cutbacks, BookPig offers convenience at an affordable price without all the hassles.
Reading for pleasure is as natural as play for children. Put young children around books and they will spend hours flipping through pages. Give older children books they want to read and aren't forced to read and watch them devour them. Make reading part of their daily family life and watch them thrive.
“In order to get kids excited about reading, we need to give them access to books that they will want to read and will enjoy.” – Gaby Chapman, BookPig head librarian in her book “Let Them Have Books”. Everything about BookPig was built to help kids find books they’ll enjoy and get them when they want them. Surround your kids with books and they will read more.
Simply stated by one of customers who also happens to be a teacher, “It’s like Christmas every month.” BookPig books arrive in a bright red package once or twice per month. Kids love receiving the package and typically dive right into the books. Nothing keeps a child excited about reading like a constant supply of BookPig “presents”.
Kids love stickers. Kids love books. BookPig stickers make rating books easy and fun. BookPig reviews make it easy for parents to talk to kids about books and find out what they liked and didn’t like. BookPig Activity packs and contests are just plain fun.
“Enthusiastic readers are more likely to go to college, to graduate, and to find satisfying careers.” (Gaby Chapman, Let them have books).
According to Children’s Reading Foundation, “Once a child begins to read, it is essential to continue reading aloud together,” as reading together offers a springboard for conversation, a way to help children understand and deal with difficult situations and a method for assisting young people to grasp and explore concepts outside their own realm of experience. Children who read, have an advantage in the academic setting because of knowledge gained from reading and their ability to analyze texts and more generally ideas.
By encouraging your children to read more, you are helping them build vocabulary and language skills and helping them gain knowledge about the world around them. Kids who read grapple with complex ideas in the books they read thus developing critical thinking skills and the ability to analyze written texts which will be increasingly important in your child's academic career, especially during their high school and college years
According to Reading is Fundamental, reading books can also encourage children to “follow their dreams and achieve their potential”. Yes, it seems incredible for a book to launch a life, but it happens every day as hungry, inquisitive young minds reach out and grab hold of the new people, places and ideas that books bring them. Research findings and reports of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) cite reading as the “single most important skill necessary a happy, productive and successful life”.
BookPig was founded by a mom looking for a better way to help her struggling reader, and built by parents, teachers, and librarians who know the value of reading. Helping kids read more is our passion and we are here to help.
For struggling readers, BookPig is a great way to get them started on a path to lifelong learning. BookPig wants your reader to succeed and we will do our best to find books that every level of reader will love. Plus make sure they don’t get frustrated by picking books that are perfect for their reading level.
Our librarians and teachers have a wide variety of resources at their fingertips to help you work with children with reading challenges. We’ve worked with children of all reading levels and difficulties and know how to encourage them. Our librarians have experience teaching students with reading difficulties and know what books are good choices for the various types of readers (beginning, advanced, reluctant, autistic or dyslexic)
Don’t know what books to choose or how to motivate your child to read? Ask our librarians. We have decades of experience on staff and are here to help. You can email us at librarian@bookpig.com or use “Ask a Librarian” on our Facebook page.
Our customer service team is here for you too. If you ever have an issue with anything, give us a call or send us an email and we will take care of you. We answer your inquiries as quickly as possible in order to provide you with a smooth and convenient experience with us.
Are you still not sure it is for you? Check out testimonials written by teacher and parents who used our service and loved it.
"Being able to "rent" books like I would a DVD has been a dream come true! I used to have to buy my son books every couple of months because going to the library was a bit of a nightmare, but now we get new ones from BookPig, and I'm saving lots of money at the same time"
"Simple, brilliant, awesome. Kids love it, I love it, you'll love it!"
"The books come quickly, they are well kept and durable, and come in a bright red package. It's like Christmas in here; the kids love it!"
"BookPig has provided our family an excellent selection of books to enjoy each month. The children love reading and exploring the world through books but we were tired of the worn and dirty books at our public library. Having the great selection of clean BookPig books delivered quickly to our door was exactly what we needed. As parents, we also rely on the BookPig librarians' recommendations to choose our next month's reads."
"We just LOVE bookpig. It's a great idea. Our kids love to read but it's expensive to buy books and we don't have space for them."
"My kids love book pig, we can get books that we can't always find in the library and keep them as long as we like and if we love the book we can just buy it from BookPig. We really look forward to getting our books. It is a great service!"
"My kids definitely read more now that we've signed up with BookPig. I always struggled to get them their book choices before but now I know they'll get exactly what they want in the next delivery - thanks Book Pig!"