Founded by a handful of community volunteers just 3½ years ago, Books for Classrooms provides books to Tucson-area schools serving children in need.
Bill Finley Special to the Arizona Daily Star On a quiet sidewalk in a peaceful neighborhood in Green Valley, there is a hand-made, hand-painted Little Free Library that is filled with books.Next to the book box is a simple, yellow metal bench, and together they tell you everything you need to know about the work being done inside.Founded by a handful of community volunteers just 3½ years ago, Books for Classrooms has already donated some 50,000 books to Pima County schools.
But Laird was simply being a community do-gooder when she walked a picket line with striking Arizona school teachers in 2018. One early stop was at World of Words, the research center for children’s books at UA’s College of Education. Their focus: those demographic communities that are traditionally underfunded and always under-represented in the mainstream of children’s literature.
“That was a big, big day for sure,” Laird recalls. “It didn’t really hit home, though, until we began getting letters from the teachers and kids who got the books. That’s when we knew we were making a difference.” Still, Books for Classrooms feels a lot like the Little Free Library it was on Day One. The warehouse is a room in Laird’s home. The loading dock is cleverly disguised as her carport.
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