The Campus Child Care Center is working to promote reading standards by selling books this week.

The Campus Child Care Center, is hosting a Scholastic Book Fair 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. today and Thursday, and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday to help raise funds for the child care center, as a part of its annual Spring Family Week.

“We will be going through the quality rating scale next year,” said Kristin Schulz, acting assistant director of the Campus Child Care Center. “We would like to update our multicultural books, our puzzles and our art materials. We’d also like to increase the quality of our programs.”

The Campus Child Care Center provides quality care to children, ages 3 months to 5 years old, according to its official page on NIU.edu/ccc. The center primarily cares for children of NIU students, faculty and staff, but also cares for a few youth from the community.

“We provide a safe, loving, caring, educational environment,” Schulz said.

According to Scholastic.com, Scholastic book fairs host more than 120,000 fairs each year that give more than 35 million students and families the access to affordable and educational products.

Apart from raising funds for the Campus Child Care Center, Scholastic will also use the money raised to donate to the All For Books program, which matches the monetary donations schools generate from book fairs to donate to local organizations that encourage reading and literacy in children.

The Campus Child Care Center has chosen to donate to the Bookcase Project of DeKalb, Schulz said.

For the Bookcase Project, a local carpenter will craft a large bookshelf that will be dedicated to a local child. Community members will be asked to donate gently used books that will be stocked on the shelf, and then these bookcases will be given to local children to promote reading in the community. Scholastic and the Campus Child Care Center will purchase new books and donating them to this project.

“Reading is important for everyone,” Schulz said. “It is important to instill the love of reading to children.”