Over 1,000 donated books and tens of thousands in grant funds will benefit Tucson children.
Bill Finley Special to the Arizona Daily Star Santa will no doubt be sleeping late this Christmas Day — he had a long night, after all — but the jolly old soul will be happy to learn he had lots of help from the book community of Tucson this year.
People are also reading… Together, these three initiatives will touch more than 10,000 Tucson children this coming year.The largest present under the tree was the book festival grant to Literacy Connects. It will help underwrite Reading Seed, a program that sends community volunteers into Tucson-area grade schools to introduce the joys of reading.
The UA Bookstore, meanwhile, began delivering books it collected in a year-end book drive for Make Way for Books on North Stone Avenue. The UA Bookstore offered deep discounts on all children’s books in November and December, encouraging patrons to buy a book and drop it in the box headed to Make Way.
Until the program was suspended in March 2020, storytimes generally attracted 75 to 125 children a month.
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