42 Books

I meant to post this yesterday, on Towel Day, but time got away from me.

Somebody in my new community has a daughter who teaches at a local school in a low-income area and they wanted to collect books to send home with the children for the summer.  The children can keep the books and hopefully it encourages them to be readers.

While I was on the trip to Texas a couple weekends ago, I thought of going to a local resale shop that I love to support (and which is harder to support at a distance) to see what they have.  I figured the books might be a dollar each and it would be a way to support two charitable activities in one go.

I'd picked up a couple books at a local dollar store, but the majority are from the Support Your Troops Resale store in Plano, Texas:

If you count there are only 41 - I realized after packing them up
to deliver that I still had one in my briefcase because I decided
to read it.  I focused on older children books as I thought many
people might buy or donate Dr. Seuss and other beginner books.

At the store, I found this set, and couldn't bear to part with it, so it's joined my personal library:

I have restored the set to numerical order.

The resale shop sold the books for less than a dollar each, and I told them it was too little, so when I paid I gave them some extra.  They do really good things for veterans and their families.  When we went I brought a pair of Irish mugs and embroidered mug mats from a gift basket I won at North Texas Irish Festival in 2020, as a donation to the shop.  I do not need more mugs, and I'd left them at my friend's house thinking I would be back soon and donate them then.  Well, it took a bit longer than expected.  The lady at the desk, to whom I gave them, said she might take one or both to a friend of hers and I said she is welcome to do so, I hope they bring pleasure to whomever own them next.

EDITED TO ADD THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE FROM THE SCHOOL:

A HUGE THANKS to all the folks who donated books to our school book swap!! Thanks to the generous donations from this neighbourhood as well as other community groups, we were able to provide at least 3 free books to all 400+ students.

We were also able to provide books to all of our teachers to help build their classroom libraries.

As of Friday, we now have a Little Free Library in front of our school, which we were able to stock with donated books as well.