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Book Bank News
2011 Forefront Award-Lake County Journal
Current School Book Drive Record
Upcoming Book Distributions WIC, Lake County Health Department-ONGOINGSuccess by 6 Home Visiting (Waukegan)-Feb. June. Oct. United Way Early Learning Club (Lake County)-ONGOING CASA (Lake County)-ONGOING *Hyde Park Elementary (Waukegan) Jan. 25th Holy Family Lutheran (Chicago) Feb. 2nd Chicago Preschool Academy (Chicago) Feb. 2nd Spaulding Elementary (Gurnee) Feb. 3rd Indian Hill Elementary (Round Lake Beach) Feb. 3rd Early Education Center (Round Lake Beach) Feb. 6th Oakdale Elementary (Waukegan) Feb. 6th *Locke Elementary (Chicago) Feb. 22nd *John S. Clark Elementary (Waukegan) Feb. 27th Reading in Motion (Chicago, IL)-Early 2012 *Village Elementary (Round Lake, IL)-Early 2012 Waukegan Public Library Card Incentive-Spring '12 Reading Power (N. Chicago, IL) May, 2012 Read with Me Festiveal (Chicago) June 16 *Indicates a full assembly and program Upcoming Book Collections Ayala Schwartz's Mitzvah Project (Northbrook) -Jan./Feb.Sherwood Elementary (Highland Park)-Jan. 9th-20th Windsor School (Arlington Heights)-Jan. 9th-27th Emory Holzer's Mitzvah Drive (Highland Park)-Jan. 13-30 Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Glenview)-Jan.16-30 Sycamore Trails Elementary (Bartlett)-Jan.16-31 Thompson Elementary School (Lake Villa)-Jan. 17-31 Antioch Upper Grade-Jan. 27th-8th Meridian Middle School (Buffalo Grove)-Feb. 1st-29th District 67 APT (Lake Forest) -Feb. 1st-15th West Elementary (Glencoe) Feb. 6th-17th Robert Crown Elementary (Wauconda)-Feb. 6th-24th Rogers Park Montessori (Chicago)-Feb. 10th & 11th Edgewood Middle School (Highland Park)-Feb. 20th-29th Park View School (Morton Grove)-Feb. 21st-Mar. 5th Newport Elementary (Wadsworth)-Feb. 24-Apr.11 First Presbyterian Church (Lake Forest)-Mar. 4-25 Brooke Wenk Bat Mitzvah Service Project-through Feb. 2012 St. John Brefeuf School (Niles, IL) February 2012 Butterfield Elementary (Libertyville, IL) March 2012 Newport Elementary (Wadsworth, IL) March 2012 Allstate Insureance Co. -August |
NCCP/ AJ Katzenmaier Elementary School-December 15th
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,
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 $1 we receive allows us to collect, process and distribute another 6 quality books to a child who has none!