- Our January story time about the Refugee Experience brought over 40 families to the shop. We worked with publishers to deliver hundreds of books to our very active refugee community.
- We conduct regular, robust story times highlighting picture books filled with diverse peoples and cultures.
- Our Gender Fluidity Workshop helped to create new support systems for parents and their children and teens.
- We held an April Poetry Workshop for kids to understand themselves and others through poetry.
- We've raised $130 in donations for shipping books to military families all over the US. That's like 16 or 17 boxes of books!
This summer's Camp Be The Change endeavored to take the Kindness Project one step further
—to encourage children to move from idea to action and to celebrate the amazing ways that they too can make a difference in the world around them. Campers learned about influential figures in history who have fought to make the world a better place, from Susan B. Anthony to Representative John Lewis. They also learned about kids like them who have chosen to take a stand to change their communities. Topics ranged from random acts of kindness to civil liberties, and campers explored ways to improve and support their own communities.
We're a bookstore, and we believe in the power of stories, and sharing those stories. We're not looking to do what non-profits do, or what other, better equipped or already established forms of outreach are doing. Instead, we are looking to initiate thoughtful action in ourselves and others through sharing one another's stories.
To learn more about Little Shop of Stories and their 2017 programming, visit their website.
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