Educating parents through outreach and public library programs is essential if children are to be given a head start at reading. However, once they are enrolled in school, it is important that education staff use the resources at their disposal to expose children to a book-rich environment and have them engaged with books for the sheer fun of it. To accomplish this, it is important that children have large school libraries at their disposal. But most important of all is to allow children to choose their own reading material. This article offers ideas on what makes a student a good reader.