New and gently-used children’s book donations are being accepted at Piedmont Grocery this holiday season.

Too many children in the Bay Area live in homes without books and attend schools and programs where books are in short supply. Encouraging reading is not enough when families and schools do not have books.

The East Bay Children’s Book Project was founded to help build literacy by putting books into the hands of children who have little or no access to them. Working through individuals and organizations who help children in need, the East Bay Children’s Book Project has given out over 800,000 free books since opening its doors in May 2005.

Many of the books distributed by the East Bay Children’s Book Project are ones that local children have outgrown. Others are new books donated by individuals and businesses. We are always on the lookout for multicultural and foreign language books to serve our many communities.

Learn more about the East Bay Children’s Book Project