Pittsburgh Mayor To Start Reading Bedtime Stories For Kids

PITTSBURGH, PA — Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and Department of Public Safety employees will begin reading bedtime stories for children amid the coronavirus outbreak. Peduto will read stories from the City-County Building as part of the Grant Street Reading Series on Mondays and Fridays at 7 p.m.; public Safety personnel will read a story on Wednesdays at 7 p.m.

Stories will be broadcast from the City of Pittsburgh – Office of the Mayor and Pittsburgh Public Safety Department Facebook pages and available on the Pittsburgh City Channel’s YouTube page.

The books that they are reading are provided through the city's partnership with the Dolly Parton Imagination Library,a free program available to all children ages 0-5 who live within city limits to register and receive one book every month in the mail until their fifth birthday.