But in St. Louis, one vending machine is getting kids hooked on a healthy habit: reading. It’s all thanks to Ymani Wince, owner of The Noir Bookshop on Cherokee Street in South St. Louis.

That's the novel approach about a half-dozen Des Moines Public Schools are taking to get kids to read — using vending machines to distribute books.

The goal of this book vending machine is to help kids in low-income families who don't have reading material at home. "For low-income families, what they found was there was one book for every 300 ...

That is where the ‘Books for Babies’ project began. A new vending machine decorating the lobby in Memorial Hospital Gulfport’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit isn’t what you’d expect.