Your book may be the one that is a child's first book
...forever.

How Can You Help Books Forever Yours Provide Books to Children?

Books Forever Yours needs books for ages 0-17. Please donate new or gently used picture books, bedtime stories, early readers, pleasure reading, and educational books. Please no books with written on or torn pages. Books Forever Yours can also take non-children's books.

During our semi-annual book donation campaign, you can drop your books off at several local bookstores or at centralized location, or, in some cases, you can arrange for us to pick up your books. Please contact us at info@BooksForeverYours.org
to find out more information about how and where to donate books.

The most important way to help is to encourage reading, have books available to your children and show them by example the enjoyment, enrichment, and fun reading can be.

Reasons to Read to Your Child, From The Unabashed Librarian Magazine, No. 39, 10

1. Because when you hold them and give them this attention, they know you love them.
2. Because reading to them will encourage them to become readers.
3. Because children's books today are so good that they are fun, even for adults.
4. Children's book illustrations often rank with the best, giving them a lifelong feeling for good art.
5. Books are one way of passing on your moral values to them. Readers know how to put themselves in other's shoes.
6. Because every teacher and librarian they ever encounter will thank you.
7. Because, until they learn how to read themselves, they will think you are magic.
8. Because it's nostalgic.
9. Because, for that short space of time, they will stay clean and quiet.
10. Because, if you do, they may then let you read in peace.

Last updated 12/31/03