How You Can Help

1) By DONATING BOOKS. If you work for a literary agency or publishing company, take up a book collection for the event. Any new K-8th Grade books would be greatly desired! Whether they be hot-off-the-presses copies of high-demand titles or spare author copies, remainder copies, old advance copies...we want as many (new, or SO 'like-new' we won't be able to tell the difference) books as we can get! Box 'em up and send 'em to: El Puente Williamsburg Leadership Center, 211 S. 4th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211. Make sure to send them such that they arrive no later than April 4th!*

(*Though direct shipping is preferable, we will be happy to arrange door-to-door pickups for large quantities of books within the tri-state area! Contact Bob Berens at (917) 202-1702 for pickups, or email him at bobberens at gmail dot com.)

2) By BUYING BOOKS. We've set up an Amazon Wish List/Gift Registry with a target list of time-honored classic books for kids, ALA and YALSA recommended kids books, and books specifically requested by our target community. Contributing spanking-new titles to the event is only a mouseclick away, whether you can give one book or a hundred books...click here: South Side Book Fair.

Again, please arrange for shipping that will arrive by April 4th!

If you find other online sources for these same books, or would like contribute K-8th books you don't see represented on the registry, go for it! Part of the fun is picking which books you'd like to reach an eager, grateful audience! Just be sure to use the address above, and to arrange shipping in time for the event!

3) By SPREADING THE WORD. If you know other publishing folk please pass this on and encourage book donations; if you know any YA or childrens book authors dying to offload excess author copies, give them instructions for how to share. These books will find an eager audience.

El Puente is committed to getting as many kids to the event as possible, from all the local and neighboring public schools...our job is to get as many books as possible to the event! The more books we have on hand, the more kids we can include!