- A LITERACY PUBLISHING HOUSE
Access to literacy changes everything.
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Thoughtfully crafted books, resources, and classroom tools that help every child build confidence, curiosity, and a love of reading at school and at home.
- Educator-designed, kid-tested
- BOOK SELECTIONS
Curated books for your literacy needs
Browse book selections created to support skill growth, story connection, classroom
reading, and joyful discovery.
Systematic decodable books that build foundational skills and independent readers.
Engaging stories that inspire character, confidence, and a champion’s mindset.
- TOOLS FOR EDUCATORS
Resources that actually help
Free printables, teacher tools, and a thriving community – built for the people doing
the work.
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- OUR MISSION
Built to make literacy more accessible.
Express Readers brings together books, resources, and educator support to help more children grow as confident readers. What started with a need for better reading materials has grown into a publishing home for stories, tools, and voices that support literacy.
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books sold
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students served
- TESTIMONIALS
Trusted by educators & parents
Hear how Express Readers is making a difference in classrooms and at home.
“Your decodable books are absolutely wonderful! Thank you so much for the time and energy you have spent writing these and publishing them.”
“I love that the text is written in a clear readable font; the font is generously sized; and the words in the sentence(s) are spaced so that students can easily see the break between one word and another.”
“I like the book sets a lot! There is actually a story and the pictures are the best :) I am recommending them to a teacher in another district as well!”
“Elise Lovejoy is a gift to schools, teachers, kids and the entire field of education. Express Readers is the kind of company that puts kids and teachers first. In this age of capilaism, us teachers on the ground are so grateful for those who share and acre with big hearts. ”
“Express Readers is a great set of books because it fills a need that exists with our core curriculum. It was missing books that for the foundational steps of reading and after trying other sets we chose to implement Express Readers across the entire district. ”
“Express Readers has completely revolutionized the way I approach literacy instruction. I am able to clearly see what skills are available to me at a glance ”
“The Express Readers that we put into every first-grade classroom really support our instruction. We adopted Benchmark Advance and are supplementing the phonics lessons with UFLI instruction. ”
“Our students enjoy reading Express Readers books which feature high quality decodables with loveable characters, funny illustrations, and tell real stories with a problem and solution. Ms. Mathew, K-2 Reading Specialist”
“Express Readers has the beginning decodable readers we are all looking for right now to align with the science of reading! My kindergarten students loved reading the ”
“I got my decodable books in today from Express Readers and to say I’m excited is the understatement of the YEAR!!!!!!!!! These gems are 100% decodable organized by skill with “sticky words” identified at the very beginning so readers can focus on those throughout the story! I know some 1st graders that are going to be SOOOOO excited reading these books in class!!!! To my fellow lower elementary teachers, go check these out! You won’t regret it! Elise Lovejoy these are even more remarkable in person! ”
“My students are not only becoming better readers, but they are falling in love with reading. My students look forward to new adventures with the cool characters in the Express Readers stories, especially BUG. ”
“I like the book sets a lot! There is actually a story and the pictures are the best :) I am recommending them to a teacher in another district as well!”
“Your decodable books are absolutely wonderful! Thank you so much for the time and energy you have spent writing these and publishing them.”
“I love that the text is written in a clear readable font; the font is generously sized; and the words in the sentence(s) are spaced so that students can easily see the break between one word and another.”
“I like the book sets a lot! There is actually a story and the pictures are the best :) I am recommending them to a teacher in another district as well!”
“Elise Lovejoy is a gift to schools, teachers, kids and the entire field of education. Express Readers is the kind of company that puts kids and teachers first. In this age of capilaism, us teachers on the ground are so grateful for those who share and acre with big hearts. ”
“Express Readers is a great set of books because it fills a need that exists with our core curriculum. It was missing books that for the foundational steps of reading and after trying other sets we chose to implement Express Readers across the entire district. ”
“Express Readers has completely revolutionized the way I approach literacy instruction. I am able to clearly see what skills are available to me at a glance . ”
“The Express Readers that we put into every first-grade classroom really support our instruction. We adopted Benchmark Advance and are supplementing the phonics lessons with UFLI instruction. ”
“Our students enjoy reading Express Readers books which feature high quality decodables with loveable characters, funny illustrations, and tell real stories with a problem and solution. Ms. Mathew, K-2 Reading Specialist”
“Express Readers has the beginning decodable readers we are all looking for right now to align with the science of reading! My kindergarten students loved reading the books ”
“I got my decodable books in today from Express Readers and to say I’m excited is the understatement of the YEAR!!!!!!!!! These gems are 100% decodable organized by skill with “sticky words” identified at the very beginning so readers can focus on those throughout the story! I know some 1st graders that are going to be SOOOOO excited reading these books in class!!!! To my fellow lower elementary teachers, go check these out! You won’t regret it! Elise Lovejoy these are even more remarkable in person! ”
“My students are not only becoming better readers, but they are falling in love with reading. My students look forward to new adventures with the cool characters in the Express Readers stories, especially BUG. ”
“I like the book sets a lot! There is actually a story and the pictures are the best :) I am recommending them to a teacher in another district as well!”
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Literary Insights for your growth
Read, watch, and explore helpful resources created to support literacy, classroom instruction, and growing readers.
