The Children’s Museum Book Bank is dedicated to enriching the lives of children in need by providing as many high quality books as possible to support early literacy and books in the home.
The Children’s Book Bank helps to ensure that all children have quality books in their home, have the pride of book ownership, and have opportunities to read and be read to. The Book Bank program supports school readiness and literacy development in children and enables community partners to better support our children through the gift of like-new books.
DONATIONS
We accept new and like-new donations of children’s books (birth through middle school). If you have a donation that is in good enough shape to be considered “gift quality,” please reach out to Kim Jones Clark, Book Bank Manager at kclark@cmorva.org to coordinate drop off.
Donations are received at our Downtown location, located at 2626 West Broad Street by appointment only. Please DO NOT drop off donations at our front desk at either our Downtown or Chesterfield location.
We do NOT accept books that are:
- torn (or have broken spines)
- worn (bent pages, faded, yellowed)
- water-damaged
- written in (inscriptions or scribbling)
- missing pieces/pages
- textbooks
- workbooks
- encyclopedias
- non-fiction older than 10 years
- books for grown-ups
We also do not accept magazines, VHS tapes/DVDs/CDs or toys.
You can make a monetary donation to the Book Bank by clicking the button below:
Thank you to our Book Buggy Sponsor
