If you’re interested in organizing something like this, let me know and we can chat logistics. Special Collections: If you are planning a local giving initiative this holiday season, consider asking friends and family to donate a book for a Bronzeville scholar.

Sharing these special deliveries is one of my favorite things to do! Shouting It Out! I celebrate all book donations as I receive them, on social media and on my website, too. Pssst! Authors… If you think your publisher might be able to provide a complete classroom donation of 30 books, please let me know!īook-Skype Combo: Also, authors! If you’d like to donate a copy/copies of your book to a class, and offer a free virtual visit alongside it, that would be terrific! I’d be happy to help make those arrangements. But if you have the ability to join forces with a friend (or friends) and donate 30 copies of the same book, you’ll be able to give an entire classroom the SAME book, which is a truly amazing gift. The Magic Number: Any single book donation is celebrated. Picture books, early readers, chapter books, middle grade and young adult titles - are all welcome, and very appreciated! We do ask that the books are new, not used.

Here’s what he had to share!īooks, Please! We are excited to receive any book written for children. I asked Pastor Neal a bit about the impact of Holiday Book Drive 2020, in the height of covid. What will Holiday Book Drive 2021 bring? It’s hard to say, but I’ve learned over the past four years that our hopes and dreams for what we might be able to accomplish together are never as big and beautiful as what springs forth from the simple goal of placing new books into children’s hands. I’m so excited that the readers served by Leading with Literacy will be getting BE STRONG for their home libraries! The book released this August and is just as fabulous as the story that came before it. Thank you, Pat!!īE STRONG by Pat Zietlow Miller, illustrated by Jen Hill ( Roaring Brook Press) is a follow-up picture book to the international sensation BE KIND. When Pastor Neal and I met this week to talk through the details for Delivery Day 2021, I also got to pass along our first book joy bundle of the season! An incredible gift of an entire classroom donation of BE STRONG from New York Times bestselling author Pat Zietlow Miller.

Rat Fair by Leah Rose Kessler