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Stories From Across the Globe #bookgivingday 2017 – Part One

Come with us for a fabulous trip around the globe, and delight in the wonderful #bookgivingday preparations that are taking place. 

My Wonder Box in the Maldives are collecting books from their customers, for the Fiyavathi shelter in Hulhumale.

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Cielo, is collecting books in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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Kate Eccles (Along Came Poppy) in the UK, making great use of Marianne Dubuc‘s bookmarks.

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Kim (BookBairn) will be hiding 24 books across their town, UK. Watch our for clues on her Facebook page.

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Kasingkasing Press and #HubonManunulat, in cooperation with Book Latté, will lead a book-donation campaign in celebration of International Book Giving Day on 14 February 2017, the Philippines.

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 Publishers Book Island will be supporting UK reading charity Readathon.

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Preparations are underway at The Montague Rotary Library, Canada.

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Books On The Bus, New Zealand, are planning a special children’s book drop on #bookgivingday

Have we included your plans? Comment below, or post your pics on social media using #bookgivingday and we’ll find you! 

 

Connect With Others Celebrating International Book Giving Day

You are not only invited to give a book to a child on February 14th. You are also invited to connect with others around the world who are celebrating International Book Giving Day.

Barney Saltzberg was inspired to write this poem after International Book Giving Day 2012.

Barney Saltzberg was inspired to write this poem after International Book Giving Day 2012.

1. Add your name to our list of people celebrating International Book Giving Day! 

2. Email a photo to amy dot broadmoore at gmail dot com. You can view photos here and stories here.

3. Share a photo via Instagram by including #giveabook in the caption. Instagram users can view the most recent photos tagged #giveabook by clicking on the hashtag. Everyone can view photos tagged #giveabook here.

4. Participate in our International Book Giving Day blog hop. If you have a blog, share a story on your blog about how you celebrated International Book Giving Day. Parents, teachers, librarians, authors and others from around the world are invited to participate! On February 21st or shortly after, add a link to your post to our blog hop at any of our host blogs: My Book Corner, Playing by the Book, Mommy Labs, sharpread, Try Curiosity, Gathering Books, My Best Friends Are Books, Jojoebi Designs, Kids Indoors, Toddler Approved, se7en, Asia in the Heart and Delightful Children’s Books. Everyone is invited to stop by one of our host blogs after February 21st to read stories from around the world about how people celebrated International Book Giving Day.

5. Join International Book Giving Day on Facebook. 

6. Connect with others via Twitter. Use the hashtags #giveabook or #IBGD[location] (e.g. #IBGDLondon).

7. Get together with others in your community. Host a storytime session at your local library; volunteer at a nonprofit organization with friends or colleagues; or invite a local bar to host a Beers for Books event.

Announcing Our International Book Giving Day Blog Hop

We invite those of you with blogs to share stories of how you celebrate International Book Giving Day via our International Book Giving Day blog hop!

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International Book Giving Day is a volunteer initiative aimed at increasing children’s access to and enthusiasm for books. We are inviting people to celebrate International Book Giving Day on February 14th by 1. giving a book to a friend or family member, 2. leaving a book in a waiting room for children to read, or 3. donating a gently used book to a local library, hospital or shelter or to an organization that distributes used books to children in need internationally.

International Book Giving Day is a wonderful day for children to get involved in giving as well as receiving books. Children can choose a favorite book and secretly leave it in a waiting room, participate in a book swap, find books on their bookshelves that they are no longer reading and donate them to a good cause, put out a book drop box at their school and collect books etc.

One of the things that makes International Book Giving Day special is connecting with others from around the world who are giving books to kids! This blog hop offers one way for people from around the world to connect and share stories of how they celebrated International Book Giving Day.

To participate:

1. Write a post describing how you celebrated International Book Giving Day! A short and sweet post (e.g. a photo of you or your child leaving a book in a waiting room) is welcome!

2. On February 21st or shortly after, add a link to your post to our blog hop at any of our host blogs:

The entire collection of links to stories about how people celebrated International Book Giving Day will be available at each of these blogs. The blog hop will remain live through March 21st.

For those of you without blogs:

We invite you to share photos via Instagram or Twitter by adding the tag #giveabook. You are also invited to email photos to amy dot broadmoore at gmail dot com, and we will share them here at International Book Giving Day’s website.

You can see how others around the world are celebrating International Book Giving Day by 1. following Instagram photos and tweets tagged #giveabook, 2. looking at the photos and stories that we share here at International Book Giving Day’s website, and 3. reading stories shared by bloggers as part of the International Book Giving Day blog hop.