2019 – Willy Reads Book Drive
This year during Willy Reads (February 4th – 8th), we will be holding a Book Drive to collect books for The Children’s Book Bank. Willy Reads promotes reading within our school community and the book drive will help us to spread that love of reading to the Greater Toronto Community. Here are the details:
Purpose: To raise awareness with our students that reading is essential to learning and is connected to mindfulness and well being, but that not all students in the GTA have access to books.
Mission: To collect books over the week of February 4th – 8th and to deliver them to The Children’s Book Bank (www.childrensbookbank.com), which is a non-profit organization in Toronto that provides free books for students throughout Toronto and to Community Organizations in Toronto. For details, please follow the link posted above.
What Books Are Appropriate?
Here are the guidelines set by The Children’s Book Bank for Donations:
Suitable Books
Book donations should be:
- Children’s books for kids aged birth to 12 years old
- In new or gently used condition, meaning no missing covers, torn pages, or pages with colouring/writing on them
- Printed within the last ten years, so a print date of 2009 – present
Unsuitable Books
Books that are unsuitable:
- Adult or YA books or novels
- School, library or text books and encyclopedias
- Books printed more than ten years ago
- Self-published books
- Magazines
- Damaged books