International Book Giving Day takes place on 14th February each year, with aim of getting as many books into the hands of children as possible.
This year, Beyond the Bell’s Growing Greater Readers program is supporting the initiative, and is inviting book-lovers from all around Greater Hamilton to get involved.
Individuals are invited to:
- gift a book to a friend or family member
- leave a book in a waiting room, café, park, or other public place for children to read
- donate a gently used book to a local library, hospital or to an organisation that distributes used books to children in need internationally.
The Growing Greater Readers team will be gift-wrapping books with a special Book Giving Day tag that indicates the appropriate age to match the book inside. These tags can be collected from the Hamilton Library for anyone wishing to wrap and distribute their own books, or donations of new, or as-new books can also be left at the library for the team to distribute.
International Book Giving Day