Books for children at Christmas

Here's a cheering and inspiring story for Christmas--Juliet is a one-woman Give a Book who collects new books and gives them to 16 or more venues---including hospitals and children's hospices. She also set up a thriving phone box library in her home village. She told us "St Thomas's are collecting from me later this week for their general wards, and the Evelina children’s department, and then Great Ormond Street next week....so that all children incarcerated over the Christmas period get a gift from Father Christmas`s literary pile!?"
So why not Give a Book for Christmas to someone who really needs one.

Give a Book for Christmas

The always admirable National Literacy Trust has just published one of their dismaying reports about declining literacy standards and the correlation between literacy and having books in the home. 1 in 3 UK homes have no books. That's 3.8 million children who don't have a book of their own. We can all help them in their work to change this by going here to help give the gift of reading for Christmas.