We are grateful for your gift!
Your online donation supports our programming and operating expenses. It costs us only $36 to collect, sort, pack and distribute a box of 100 books! Gifts can be made 'In Honor/Memory' of someone special. |
Teachers and Social Workers!
Register to visit the BookSmiles Book Bank at 7300 N. Crescent Blvd, #10 in Pennsauken, and take books for the children you serve. Select from books for children ages infant-18. An annual $25 donation is all it takes for the 2023-2024 school year, ending in June. |
We accept book donations for children and adults!
For donations of several thousand books and estate libraries (2,000+), please contact Larry@booksmiles.org If you have several hundred (2,000 or less) books to drop off, Please contact Janet Snyder for an appointment, so we can help you unload your vehicle Jsnyder@booksmiles.org For smaller donations (less than 500 books): We have collection bins located in front of our facility 24/7. If only a bag or two of children's books, drop them off at one of our collection stations. Need a tax receipt for donations? Click here. |
The BookSmiles Mission
BookSmiles, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 82-3233733) , promotes literacy and the joy of reading by giving books to children who need them most throughout Philadelphia and New Jersey. We provide students and younger siblings with high-quality new or gently used books, laying the groundwork for academic success. Educators – especially those representing Title I schools – receive books for classroom libraries, for students to keep at home and for pop-up book fairs. We “irrigate book deserts”!
Books Distributed Since 2017