Highlights from 30 Years of Continuous Service
Founder Vicki Pollack, College Avenue 1998Read Aloud Director Melanie Mickelson literally grew up with the Children’s Book Project — Vicki’s her mom!Napoleon Street 2008Book Bank 2022, back in the Bayview1992: Children’s Book Project is founded by reading specialist...
Celebrate Earth Day with a Children’s Book Drive!
All year round, we rely on volunteers — like Marycora at St. Ignatius HS — to run book drives that keep our shelves stocked with plenty of wonderful books for children who need them. Thirty years ago this Fall, Vicki Pollack founded our nonprofit to give free books to...
Honoring Leonard Kessler’s Legacy
Leonard Kessler wrote and illustrated hundreds of children’s books that celebrate the joy of being yourself. His self-portrait graces the republished edition of Mr. Pine’s Purple House. Our longtime supporter and friend Leonard Kessler, author and illustrator of...
Over 200,000 Books Out During Pandemic
https://youtu.be/OLE9BjnlTUg Amanda's Title 1 students advanced from 10% to 70% reading at grade level — during the pandemic! — thanks to all the free books they got to keep for their very own from the Children's Book Project. On March 12, 2020, due to the emerging...
You Put Us Over the Top!
Thanks to your generous year-end gifts, we've exceeded our donor matching grant of $50,000! We're so encouraged by your strong support of our mission, and look forward to offering another year of dedicated service in challenging times. This year, we'll celebrate our...
$50,000 Donor Match through Year’s End
We're thrilled to announce that a group of anonymous benefactors will match every dollar up to $50,000 that we receive through the end of the year. Your generous tax-deductible gift will go twice as far to help us continue to offer free books to children who need them...
2021 by the Numbers
November 2020......November 20211 year ago, we relocated our Book Bank to the Bayview District in San Francisco, and ever since are thriving and working better than ever to get books to children who need them most: 4 programs to meet community needs: Read Aloud for...
Giving Season at Folio Books
We're grateful for the longtime support of independent Noe Valley bookseller Folio Books! Check out our curated Giving Tree wishlist in-store and at foliosf.com through the end of the holiday season. Your purchase from the Giving Tree helps us give new, in-demand...
Going Strong at 29 Years!
Since 1992, we've been giving free books to children who need them for equity in literacy, learning, and life. This October, we're celebrating 29 years of service and have tallied up our biggest month ever despite the pandemic — 18,523 books given away and 24,956...
Cole Hardware Is All In for Us This August!
This August, our longtime community partner Cole Hardware will collect spare change at their registers AND children's book donations at all their store locations in San Francisco and Oakland. Thanks, Cole Hardware, for your ongoing support of our mission to give free...