Donation Spotlight! The Children's Book Project

​The Children's Book Project is a wonderful San Francisco non-profit that is dedicated to providing free books to Bay Area children. Their website states:

"The Children’s Book Project was founded to help build literacy by providing new and gently used books for free to children who need them. Since 1992, we have given away over 2.7 million books for children in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.

Research shows that children to whom books are read have an easier time learning to read than those who don’t have this experience. In addition, evidence shows that reading aloud to children actually helps their brain development. However, many children in the Bay Area and beyond live in homes without books and attend schools and programs where books are in short supply. Encouraging reading is not enough when families do not have books."

The Children's Book Project is always in need of new or gently used, books for children of all ages, from infants through teens. Books can be donated on-site or at one of the many blue "Book Bags" at retailers around the city. Here is a list of all retailers with Book Bag donation sites.

They especially need:

• board books
• early readers
• elementary chapter books
• books in Spanish or Chinese (all ages)
• books featuring diverse characters (all ages)
• graphic novels
• popular series for 8-12-year-olds

The Children's Book Project
1360 43rd Avenue, room 105
San Francisco
415.665.6315
childrensbookproject.org