The Library Society’s ‘First Library’ Book Set will be the signature offering of the Book Drop initiative, encompassing three individual books targeted at the first three stages of literacy development, yet published in-house using archival and historical material.
Each Book Set brings every child their “First Library” collection at a nominal cost of $35/per. Book 1 – ABCs. Book 2 – Colors. Book 3 – Numbers (all in English and Spanish). This book set is used as “the book” given to every newborn through the Books in Every Bag program, sharing treasures of the Library Society across all three counties, but also offsetting an unsustainable expense for their literacy efforts. We need to support 800/month for newborns, and another 200/month for retailers. In other words, 12,000 a YEAR.
Thank you for helping us to reach this goal, and to those who have funded Book Drop ‘First Library’ Book Sets: Ms. Andrea Dolores Rose Rousseaux and Mr. Charles E. Dorkey, III, Mr. Jamie and Mrs. Ann deSaussure Biondi, Arthur Pelzer, Mrs. Ashley Warnock, Mrs. Carol McDonnell, Mrs. Carol Sottile Johnson, Mrs. Carolina Richards Bennett, Clare and Edwin Meyer, David L. and Bonnie P. Dumas, David Smythe, Mrs. Hannah Mabry, Ms. Heather McFarlin, Mrs. Isabella Ridall, Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Steele, Mrs. Jeanne Caine Meden, Mrs. Jeanne Caine Meden, Ms. Jennifer Chestnut Comer, Ms. Jenny Berman Rosenthal, Mr. and Mrs. Jerrold Mitchell, Jo-Ann and Tom Deso, Jonathan Zweig, Julie and Kyle McAllister, Mrs. Kathy Sachs Grabner, Mrs. Lois Gore Kessler, Luanne Rodgers, Malcolm Crosland and Meggett Lavin, Mrs. Melanie Moon, Ms. Melissa Voorhees, Mr. Michael Gottlieb and Mrs. Karyn Kaplan, Nina Kaufman, Mrs. Pamela Levy, Ms. Pamela Watson, Ms. Susan Spearman and Dr. Jeffrey Kline, Dr. Will Wingfield, and Mr. and Mrs. William Beak