Describes a feasibility and practicality pilot project of a library story-telling program for two-year-olds. Parent survey results and project experience indicate that such a reading program is worth consideration by children's librarians. Recommended books for two-year-olds and their parents are listed. (CMV)

The Beginning with Books project distributed 1,000 free packets of children's books to disadvantaged families, and questionnaires showed favorable effects on literacy activities and family reading patterns. The program is now affiliated with the Pittsburgh public library, and a new literacy program is aimed at children in families of adults who…