WOOHOO!!
Our book collection stands are finally finished.They are functional, beautiful
and so elegant. We are so proud of them. Hopefully they will get us tons of new books. You can see it here at Books Inc. in Alameda.
WOOHOOHOO!!!
Kaiser donated almost 20,000 Board Books to us on May 8th. We still have a few thousand available. These are all preschool books packed in cases of 50 identical books. If you can use some, please come in soon before they are all gone.
WOOHOOHOOHOO!!!
We are already saving prizes for BOOKS BINGO, our fundraiser on Thursday, May 24th. Please save the date and join us for great food, fun and beer at Actual Cafe.
The East Bay Children’s Book Project helps build literacy by putting books into the hands of children who have little or no access to them. Working through individuals and organizations who help children in need, we have given out more than half a million free books since opening our doors in May 2005.
If a school has a library but no librarian, does it matter?
In an earlier post, we talked about how the East Bay Children’s Book Project is helping the Friends of the Oakland Public School Libraries re-stock and re-open shuttered Oakland public school libraries. But what if a school has a library but no librarian to run it and to guide the students who use it? You might be surprised at the bitterness of the debate on this question. Read on … Read More…
Full Shelves at Reach Academy, thanks to the Book Project!
We can’t claim credit for writing or arithmetic, but the East Bay Children’s Book Project is proud to say that it’s easier for students in a number of Oakland public schools to get books to read, thanks to an ongoing project with Ann Gallagher of the Oakland Unified School District and the Friends of the Oakland Public School Libraries.
In 2010, thirty-five of eighty-three Oakland public schools had no functioning school library. “They were all in a deplorable situation due to neglect and age,” says OUSD’s Gallagher. That sounded like just the right kind of challenge to Gallagher and to us at the East Bay Children’s Book Project. Over the past year and a half, we’ve teamed up Read More…
