In the Fall of 1998, we launched our first efforts toward that end by publishing high quality children's books at Winslow Press and connecting each of those books to its own interactive Web pages for further exploration on its theme at Read&Click.com. After reading one of our titles, children, teens, parents, teachers and librarians can visit our Read&Click Web site and find links to other relevant sites, downloadable teacher guides, interactive games and activities and much more to come. Read&Click thus provides an educational enrichment experience for each of its books.

We think integrating high quality literature with the new media— beginning with children’s literature— will ensure that this generation, and those to come, have the necessary guidance and therefore ability, to use wisely the phenomenal wave of new technology in our lives. In so doing, we have created a different library— a library still the same as its predecessor in content, yet vastly improved in its accessibility to children, parents and teachers, all with the ongoing respect of the librarian’s role. We are about guiding and maximizing the interactions with the new technology and the myriad of ways in which to approach it. We are about the placement— not replacement— of literature in the new millennium.

Read&Click.com creates a unique partnership— the printed word with the World Wide Web— and it is our hope to improve the literacy of our youngsters as we all take the first steps into the 21st century.