Three simple ways to celebrate International Book Giving Day!
1. Give a Book to a Friend or Relative.
Celebrate International Book Giving Day by giving a child a new, used or borrowed book.
2. Leave a Book in a Waiting Room or Lobby.
Choose a waiting room where kids are stuck waiting and there are few to no good books available. Purchase a good book, and deposit your book covertly or overtly in your waiting room of choice. The goal here is to spread the love of reading to kids, so choose a fun book, nothing controversial.
3. Donate a Book.
Wrap up a box of children’s books that your kids have outgrown and get them in the hands of children who could really use a book or two. Donate your books to your local second hand store, library, children’s hospital, or shelter. Alternatively, donate your books to an organization working internationally to get books in the hands of kids, such as Books for Africa.
How will you celebrate International Book Giving Day?
Add your name to the list of individuals giving books for International Book Giving Day!
See We’re Giving Books for the list of individuals giving books for International Book Giving Day.
Email photos of International Book Giving Day celebrations to amy dot broadmoore at gmail dot com! We would love to share them on our Photos & Stories page!
This is such a lovely idea, I would definitely like to take part.
I am a children’s author and plan to donate books to my regional and local libraries.
Hi! How wonderful this idea is! As a blogger I already wrote a small postage promoting it and add the badge to my blog. I most certainly will give some books to children on 14th February!
Thank you! Perfect!
This is such an awesome idea. I’ve written a series of books and “Sibo” (the main character) is going to host an event on facebook and encourage all her fans to give books to those who need them – as well as give away her books.
This is a very Great Intiative, Congratulations and well done. Receive God’s Blessings because He wills it!
Such a great idea. I live in South Africa and have signed up for the Books for Africa newsletter. I have not heard of them being active in South Africa – even though I am with a newspaper here – and I could not find a contact e-mail address for them. I would appreciate it if you can assist – especially as I would like to include International Book Giving Day in my next newspaper column.
Hi, Stevie,
Here is a list of projects that Books for Africa is inviting people to donate directly to: https://www.booksforafrica.org/donate/to-project.html. One is in South Africa.
Contact information for Books for Africa is available here: https://www.booksforafrica.org/contact-us.html. Best, Amy
Thanks so much for your prompt response, Amy. I will get in touch with them.
I love this concept! Can’t wait to get giving
what an awesome way to share the love and participate in a random act of kindness.
I am going to encourage each of my students (future English teachers), to have a child as a “Valentine’s date” by giving or reading him/her a book.. i’ll tell them to take pictures which they could include in their teaching reading portfolio.
this is like the best idea, a lot of people have books at home which they had already read. so they could give it to someone else, so they could enjoy it.Even if you are from different country, like me ( i am from Russia) it will still work for you
What a brilliant idea. I had never heard of this before and think it’s brilliant! We donate books to our children’s library but not as often as we should, so this has reminded me to sort out some more and doante them.
Hey everyone. We have a project for school which is gathering a lot of books or any reading materials through donations. These books will be donated to our school library. These books will be benefited by a lot of students. Please like our page “Charity Smeared on Yellowed Pages” and donate books if you can.
Here’s the link:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Charity-Smeared-on-Yellowed-Pages/530378037007658?fref=ts
Thanks!
My boys and I will be donating Barefoot Books from our traveling book shop, Dena’s Barefoot Book Nook, to our local school and library!
Thank you for this lovely initiative! I’m putting the badge up on my company website – http://www.schoolsnmore.com with a short write-up. Hope its ok that I’m including an image of Todd Parr’s wonderful bookplate as well (with no alterations and correctly attributed). Will also add to our facebook page to encourage anyone who follows our posts to join in. On a personal front, my kids will select a few books from their overfull bookshelves to donate to our local library.
Wonderful idea – we’re taking part – http://thegreendoorbookshop.co.uk/an-alternative-valentines-day/
Dear Amy, we are a medium sized publishing outfit based in Enugu, southeast Nigeria. We specialise in publishing affordable books for children. We will be intetested in taking active part in the 2013 and beyond International Book Giving Day. We have been involved in giving out books to schools in rural areas for the past ten years to encourage good reading culture. The task is however daunting.
This year, we intend to partner with one or two media outfits here in Enugu to draw attention to this noble objective of giving books to childten and the youth for life long reading habit and for sustainable development.
We will be very pleased to have us listed as one of the organisations in the world that takes seriously the issue of giving out books to children for the development of good reading culture. The Nigerian govetnment at different levels only pay leap service to this all important objective and we are out to make the difference. We need your support. Thanks. Laz Chukwukelu – President
We are participating and asking our fellow “pennies of time” friends to do so as well! Thanks for inspiring us!
By books,we build happy kids future leaders.A call to be headed by all.
It’s brilliant movement.Simple way with great effects!
What a fantastic idea! We are the authors of http://www.jakeyandvickybooks.com.au, a book series about the life of a family. We are giving away books for sick kids at the children’s hospital to cheer them up.
This is wonderful! I’ll definitely be taking part.
Donating some of my books was important to me. Eventhough it’s not been easy, I just loved the experience of giving a book I love to someone I care.
You may want flowers and chocolates, but a true heart gives a child a book.
I braved the rain (it was torrential) and popped up the stairs.
Left a few books and some smiling faces: “ooh is that new books?” squeaked one of the girls.
I slipped back out with a smile on my face
I braved the rain and then again, I walked a mile to get a smile.
The best moment was finding a 7 year old girl who wants to be an author – that made my day.
There are a few more here:
http://limeylimericks.com/107-events-and-whatnots/155-international-book-giving-day
AWESOME IDEA AMY! Thank you so much for your efforts to organize this fabulous day of sharing a book and helping to instill the love of reading (and learning) in children everywhere. I am celebrating by giving books to my niece and nephew, as well as neighborhood children today. Happy Reading to young and old around the world!
Our elementary school library helped each student give a new book to a classmate as a sweeter than sweet celebration today. Love comes in many flavors, not just chocolate kisses and candy hearts!
Few days ago, on the day of Valentine day, i gave a book to my sister. it was “Crime and Punishment ” which translated into Korean. my sister lived in the Philippiens for 6 years so i felt like she is forgetting her mother language. that is the reason why i gave it her. she liked it and she is reading it now
Everything is very open with a precise clarification of the challenges.
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