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  • allows youngsters to experience owning a book of their very own
  • empowers children to develop their love of reading
  • encourages children to share their love of reading with family and friends

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Why we need 

Reading For Pleasure

Young people’s reading enjoyment is at crisis point. The latest research from the National Literacy Trust reveals that children’s reading enjoyment is at the lowest level recorded since 2005. (When records began)

Martin Galway, Head of Schools at the National Literacy Trust says

We need to give children every opportunity possible to fall in love with reading, and to give families and schools the support they need to put reading for enjoyment at the heart of every school and home.” 

Sept 2023

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1 in 5 children aged 5 to 8 do not have a book of their own at home

 

However, children and young people who do have a book of their own at home are six times more likely to read above the level expected for their age compared with their peers who don’t have their own book  

The National Literacy Trust 

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       How                                 works

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1. We receive donations of pre-read books from

Rotary Clubs

Individuals

Soroptimists

Charity Shops

Schools

Libraries

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2. We chat with teachers (and children) to find out what types of books they would prefer to receive

(if at all possible)

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3. We deliver books to

Nursery schools

Primary Schools

SEN Schools

High Schools

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4. Youngsters choose their special book to take home, READ and keep forever

By using Pre-Read books we are helping to protect the environment 

Making a single NEW book produces approximately the same amount of carbon dioxide(CO2) emissions as a 17 mile car journey (The Independent Publishers Guild (IPG)

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Worse, when a book reaches landfill, its decomposition emits twice as much greenhouse gas and has a harmful impact on local water systems as when it was made.

When you consider in the UK alone 13 million books are sent to landfill each year, it's easy to see how using pre-read books has a positive influence on the environment (CONFLICT, DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE NETWORK ( CODEP )

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Pre-read books still have great stories to tell, and whilst we are unable to undo the emissions from their initial production, we can ensure a carbon neutral future by keeping them from needlessly going to waste

Books4School Libraries

Many Schools have very few or even no library books

Other schools have plenty and regularly renew their stocks of books

Rotary Books4School Libraries recycle these unwanted books and share them with schools where the books are needed to establish or enhance the school library 

Books that would otherwise be thrown away now have a second chance to Make a Difference in the World 

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A Message from the youngsters at

Silkmore Primary Academy

Stafford

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Rotary Book Box

 

Our Rotary Book Boxes are placed at the front door of school.

 

Every evening the doors of the Book Box are opened.

 

As youngsters are collected from school the children & their parents/carers choose a book TOGETHER.

 

They take the book home, read it together and keep it forever.

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A book can change a child’s life story

We have so far given

over 190,000

children across Staffordshire, Shropshire and parts of the West Midlands a book of their own to take home, READ and keep forever.

WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE
IN THE WORLD

Donate Books

Collect & Donate New or Pre-read Childrens Books

Involve Your School

Receive FREE Books

Involve Your Rotary Club

Working Together With our Partners

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