In Other Worlds

I read about Operation Teen Book Drop on readergirlz, and thought it was a great idea. Since I work for a university that has a Children’s Hospital, and it is such a great idea, I decided to steal it.

So, to celebrate the upcoming National Library Week, the libraries at the University of South Alabama are collecting children’s and young adult books to donate to the kids and teens of the University of South Alabama Children’s and Women’s Hospital through April 12. If you’re near Mobile, feel free to drop books at the University Library, Biomedical Library, UMC Health Information Resource Center, Children’s & Women’s Library, or Info Desk in the Student Center.

If you aren’t in Mobile but think you can mail me a parcel of book(s) that will arrive before April 12, let me know. If you don’t have any children’s or teen books, consider trading other old books in at a used book store that gives you credit and getting some. (And not even just for the kids, young adult literature is a very worthy thing to check out for your own personal reading.) This is your chance to make a young new fan of your genre to carry your torch into the future. Feel free to print this legal-sized poster and let folks around you know, or call someone you know who has a stack of their children’s old books sitting around gathering dust and invite them to donate.

The picture above is of Seti playing in the book drop boxes while I was making them.  She prefered to be in the one I was wrapping at that moment.  Ponder enjoyed trying to catch her in between boxes. Below is an image of the poster.