THE BRONX BOOKWORM BOOK FESTIVAL August 16, 2025
The Bronx is Reading promotes literacy and fosters a love of reading among children, teens, and adul
The Bronx is Reading is thrilled to our second annual The Bronx Bookworm Book Festival on Saturday, August 16th, 12PM-4PM at Morrison Plaza! This is our second festival of its kind that’s geared toward picture book and illustrated storytellers. Come listen to both the author and the illustrator of the book for a dedicated storytime, illustration demonstration, brief discussion about the creation of the book, followed by an interactive activity. We’re inviting all parents, caregivers, and guardians to plan the reading seed early and cultivate Bronx readers and beyond this summer. This event is FREE. Click HERE for more information.
Literacy OUTREACH
ROOM TO READ believes World Change Starts with Educated Children®, Room to Read is creating a world free from illiteracy and gender inequality. We are achieving this goal by helping children in historically low-income communities develop literacy skills and a habit of reading, and by supporting girls as they build skills to succeed in school and negotiate key life decisions.
The Children’s Book Project
gives books to children who need them for equity in literacy, learning, and life.
They aim to create a more socially just world by providing books for free to under-resourced children. The Children’s Book Project is committed to closing the opportunity gap and lifting up our community by raising readers.
BURLINGAME Public Library Teen Blog Bulingamereads Youth Leaders in LIT Founder, Marycora Pattison is on the team that maintains this Instagram blog which is filled with weekly book reviews by teens for teens! Follow them on IG @burlingamereads
READ FOR GOOD
Buy Books. Do Good.
Better World Books is your online destination for books offering the widest selection of used and new books. We give booklovers across the world access to the power of knowledge at an affordable price and help them stay connected through reading. We better the world, one book at a time, by making a difference with every purchase made through donations and environmental programs. It's simple: Buy Books. Do Good.
38M+BOOKS DONATED
$35M+FUNDS RAISED FOR LIBRARIES & LITERACY
475M+BOOKS REUSED OR RECYCLED
117M+BOOKS SOLD
DONATIONS
It's simple: Buy Books. Do Good.
Every time you purchase a book from BetterWorldBooks.com, you help us donate books to people that need it. The books we donate go through hundreds of non-profit organizations. Our customers have helped make it possible for Better World Books to have donated over 38 million books.
LITERACY
Contribution for literacy at checkout.
We don't just support global literacy alone. We work with libraries and readers across the globe to make a difference with every purchase.
Our annual literacy grants fund literacy and educational nonprofits and libraries for specific projects. Libraries and educational nonprofit literacy groups may apply for funds to support their efforts to further literacy in their communities. We carefully review each application ahead of awarding grants to fund projects that will have the greatest impact. Grants from Better World Books are made possible by your purchases!
We also partner with organizations to help them fundraise for programs that support literacy. Our customers have the option to contribute one dollar ($1.00) with each purchase on BetterWorldBooks.com for these initiatives. We have partnered with a variety of organizations, including Books for Africa, Internet Archive, and Little Free Library.
SUSTAINABILITY
We’re committed to creating a positive social and environmental impact.
Better World Books diverts books from landfills by collecting material from libraries, bookstores, college campuses throughout the community, and other sources with surplus materials.
Better World Books is proud to be B Corp™ certified. B Corp certification is awarded to companies that achieve high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. B Corps are committed to using business as a force for good in the world.
Recycling
As part of our commitment to environmental sustainability, we never, ever throw away a book. Any book for which we cannot find a proper home is recycled.
Better World Books is deeply committed to sustainability, implementing initiatives such as energy-efficient lighting, transitioning to recyclable paper packaging, and extensive book reuse and recycling programs. These efforts have conserved significant resources, reduced waste, and minimized our carbon footprint, underscoring the dedication of Better World Books to promoting a circular economy and a greener future by simply selecting this option with their order at checkout.
Carbon Offsets
We recognize the importance of mitigating our carbon footprint. We have purchased 128,657 carbon offsets and 16,884 Renewable Energy Credits (RECs). These investments help offset our emissions and support the development of renewable energy projects.
Do you have books you would like to donate? Better World Books is the best place to donate your used books. We have hundreds of drop boxes in the United States and the United Kingdom. Find the nearest location to you here.
CLOSING THE LITERACY GAP
YLIL & SI Raise $1500 for Literacy Youth Leaders in LIT: Advocates for Literature & Literacy led a two day fundraiser to bring awareness to closing the literacy gap. St. Ignatius College Preparatory Students raised $1500 which was donated to the Children’s Book Project in San Francisco to aid in their mission to provide books to the underserved in the Bay Area. VIDEO HERE
It’s ‘Alarming’: Children Are Severely Behind in Reading
March 8, 2022 The fallout from the pandemic is just being felt. “We’re in new territory,” educators say.Children are behind, and teachers trained in phonics, like Garensha John, are in short supply. Ms. John leads a first-grade class at Capital Preparatory Harbor Lower School in Bridgeport, Conn.Credit...Christopher Capozziel
Children's Book Project: Our Hero of the Week: As we celebrate the countless contributions of women and girls to society during Women's History Month, we call out Marycora, who pre-sorted and delivered 783 beautiful books collected in the recent St. Ignatius HS #BookDrive
Thank you, Marycora, @siyouthlit, and the St. Ignatius HS community, for your support of our mission to give books to children
FREE LITERACY RESOURCES
SIMONTEEN
AMERICANLITERATURE.COM
ROOM TO READ
SIMONREADS is Simon & Schuster Publishing House FREE resource for Young Adult/ Teen readers. Full teen novels and video tidbits to engage with a YA audience.
ROOM TO READ
AMERICANLITERATURE.COM
ROOM TO READ
Room to Read purchases millions of children’s books to distribute around the world and our free online digital library, LiteracyCloud.org, hosts thousands of titles in 33+ languages, providing primary school students with the resources and guidance they need to build a strong foundation in literacy.
AMERICANLITERATURE.COM
AMERICANLITERATURE.COM
AMERICANLITERATURE.COM
A comprehensive digital library of world literature from Frederick Douglass to Oscar Wilde.
LITERATURE CONNECTS
David Nihill, Marycora Pattison, Fintan O'Toole and Catriona Crowe at the Consulate General of Ireland in San Francisco Hinterland West reception. 2022
One of Ireland's most respected and leading public intellectuals, Fintan O'Toole presenting on his latest work, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
Catherine Flynn is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley and Director of Irish Studies. She is one of the world’s leading Joycean scholars, and spoke on her new centenary edition of Ulysses from Cambridge University Press.
PHILANTHROPY AT WORK
VOLUNTEER
SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY Volunteer Opportunities
SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY Volunteer Opportunities
SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY Volunteer Opportunities
Summer Youth Volunteers is a program for rising 8th-12 graders to support Summer Stride--the Library's all-ages learning program--for 10 hours or more during June, July, and August.
Summer Stride kicked off June 1, and applications for Summer Youth Volunteers open in late April.
ORGANIZE A BOOK DRIVE
SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY Volunteer Opportunities
SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY Volunteer Opportunities
The Children's Book Project of San Francisco is always in need of books to provide to underserved Bay Area children! You could make a difference by organizing a SUMMER BOOK DRIVE! People are happy to help children who need books by donating new books and like-new books that their family have outgrown. The CBP is grateful for members of the community, like you, that are willing to lead a book drive that could potentially bring in anywhere from 50 to 5,000 children’s books. The CBP distributes over 10,000 free books every month to children who need them, so your drive is crucial to fulfilling their mission!
PUBLICATIONS
