This week, our shipment of World Book Night books arrived. UPS unloaded hundreds and hundreds of boxes on our loading dock. We knew we were receiving a lot of books – Austin has the highest per capita number of Givers in the nation – but seeing all of the boxes stacked up at once really hit it home.
Check it out, these are just the books being distributed by the Austin Teen Book Festival:
All of the groups who signed up to be Givers picked up their (mighty heavy) loads this week. We spent Wednesday and Thursday loading up the vehicles of the Austin branch of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Badgerdog, Literary Lonestars, and others. It’s been an amazing effort. What a feeling to watch those cars pull away and know that each and every book in those boxes is going to be put in the hands of someone for whom the joy of reading has not always been quite within reach.
We’re looking forward to distributing boxes to the individual Givers soon. It seems as if April 23rd has been a long time coming, and now it’s almost here! We’ll be gathering as many images of World Book Night happenings as we can on April 23rd and sharing them with everyone on facebook, twitter and pinterest. Hopefully, if you didn’t sign up this year, it will have you jazzed up to participate next year.
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I’d love to know where the other Austin WBN book givers will be doing their good deeds š
I picked my selection, The Kite Runner, today and I’m planning to hand out those on the far North side, around some parks, pubs, and hospitals’ waiting areas.
I would like to know this, as well.
My initial plan was to hand out books on Cap Metro buses, but now I am not so sure.
My selection: The Things They Carried.