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Bernie's Book Bank Monthly Newsletter

February 2012 Issue

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NEW School Book Drive Record
Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Glenview broke the record on January 31, 2012 with the collection of 11, 357 children's books!

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Upcoming Book Distributions

WIC, Lake County Health Department-ONGOING
Success by 6 Home Visiting (Waukegan)-Feb. June. Oct.
United Way Early Learning Club (Lake County)-ONGOING
CASA (Lake County)-ONGOING
*Wadsworth Elementary (Chicago) Feb. 29th
*Scammon Elementary (Chicago) Feb. 29th
Forrestal Elementary (N. Chicago) Mar. 19th
AJ katzenmaier Elementary (N. Chicago) Mar. 19th
South Elementary (N. Chicago) Mar. 19th
*William Brown Elementary (Chicago) Mar. 20th
*Victor Herbert Elementary (Chicago) Mar. 20th
Day of the Child/Day of the Book (Waukegan) April 22
Waukegan Public Library Card Incentive-Spring '12
Reading Power (N. Chicago, IL) May, 2012
Read with Me Festiveal (Chicago) June 16
Kids 1st Health Fair (Waukegan) August 1

*Indicates a full assembly and program

Upcoming Book Collections

Meridian Middle School (Buffalo Grove)-Feb. 1st-29th
Aptakisic Junior High (Buffalo Grove) Feb. 1st-March 15th
Jakob Lex Mitzvah Project (Green Oaks) Feb. 14th-28th
Syclo LLC. Feb. 20th-March 17th
Park View School (Morton Grove)-Feb. 21st-Mar. 5th
Newport Elementary (Wadsworth)-Feb. 24-Apr.11
Collin Hinds Mitzvah Project (Deerfield)-March
Congregation Solel (Highland Park)-March
First Presbyterian Church (Lake Forest)-Mar. 4-25
Queen of All Saints (Chicago)- Mar. 19-Apr. 2
Permaseal (Downers Grove)-March
Roosevelt Elementary (Park Ridge)-April
Washington Elementary (Park Ridge)-April
District 303 (St. Charles)-April 2nd-9th
Prairie Elementary School (Buffalo Grove)-April 2-16
Brooke Wenk Bat Mitzvah Service Project-through Feb. 2012
St. John Brefeuf School (Niles, IL) February 2012
Butterfield Elementary (Libertyville, IL) March 2012
Allstate Insurance Co. -August

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NCCP/ AJ Katzenmaier Elementary School-December 15^th

The Mission Bernie's Book Bank facilitates the collection, processing and redistribution of quality new & gently used children's books so as to significantly increase BOOK OWNERSHIP among at-risk infants, toddlers and school age children living throughout Chicagoland.

Bernie's Book Bank is Chicagoland's collection, processing and distribution center for quality un-utilized children's books! Our objective is to continuously pour quality children's books into "at-risk" homes and neighborhoods, increasing book OWNERSHIP. By doing so,

economically disadvantaged children are exposed to books from birth!

we support the fragile fledgling love for reading of school-age children with quality book ownership at home!

Sustainable It has been said that having books in the home is twice as important as a father's educational level. In every successful home where children reside you will find an abundance of books. Therefore, the children we serve receive 6 quality books at a time and a minimum of 12 books a year.

Green We do not spend a penny on books! All the books we distribute are either quality previously owned books or brand-new surplus books. In other words, Bernie's Book Bank distributes books whose fate would otherwise have been the garbage. Adult books get "passed along" all the time, why not children's books?

Economical Because we believe in "READ, REUSE, RECYCLE," we can collect, process and distribute quality books for pennies on the dollar. In fact, every $3 we receive allows us to collect, process and distribute two bags of quality books to a child who has none!