(This is not to say there have always been appropriate books in the classroom. There were not in DD's K and 1 classroom or in DS's K classroom, but I would hardly expect most K classrooms to have a lot of chapter books lying around. Both teachers made efforts to get some appropriate books into the rooms for my kids, and told me to send in whatever I wanted. Heck, DS's private PRE-K teacher gave us permission to check out books from the school library to have in the classroom for him.)