Preschool books for everyone!

Kristin and Bruce with their enormous donation

Had so much fun today filling up my car with an enormous load of books donated by Kristin and Bruce. She had run a preschool program for 14 years and was thrilled to hear that we will be able to find new homes for her lovely books. This beautifully curated collection was organized by topic, so tomorrow I will be running around to several local preschools to get the 100+ Halloween and Thanksgiving books into the right hands.

Thanks so much to them in advance from all of the schools who will benefit.  

Greenwich Alliance and Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich pass along their extra books

Happy Readers (Greenwich Free Press photo) 

The Greenwich Alliance for Education ran a very popular free book fair last Wednesday at the Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich. This annual book drive is part of Greenwich Reads Together, and Greenwich Academy collected 1,900 books in their middle school to help support this successful event. It promotes childhood literacy by letting kids fill their bags with free books to take home.  Right up our alley here at Books4Everyone!

Many thanks to Julie Faryniarz, Executive Director of Greenwich Alliance for giving us their excess books to distribute elsewhere.  Thanks as well to Don Palmer, Program Director of Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich for providing us with excess backpacks that we'll be taking up to Bridgeport schools.  

Greenwich Book Shed celebrates 20 years

The Greenwich Book Shed was built 20 years ago to house and distribute books donated by Greenwich residents at the town's recycling center. In 2015 Greenwich residents have taken home over 30,000 books, and an additional 20,000 have been taken to schools, senior centers and other organizations.

For the 20th anniversary celebration, we shared pictures and thank you notes from many of the organizations that have received the donated books.

See an article about it in the Greenwich Sentinel from 10/16/15.