Our second annual "Ripple Effect Book Drive" will take place in month of February. Last year we collected and donated over 700 books thanks to your help. Let's beat that number this year! Start looking through your books now or add a new book to your next bookstore purchase.

We started Ripple Grove Press to bring beautiful and timeless books to life. But we also want to make a difference in the lives of children. So we are teaming up with the Children’s Book Bank (CBB) in Portland, OR each year to help put a book in every young child's hands. The Children’s Book Bank makes that possible.

They reach low-income neighborhoods, where the ratio of books to children is one book for every 300 children, far below the ratio of 13 books per child in middle-income neighborhoods. The Children's Book Bank closes this book gap by gathering tens of thousands of new and gently-used books from the community each year and engaging hundreds of volunteers to help clean, sort, and distribute the books to low-income children, free of charge. Since 2008, The Children’s Book Bank has delivered over 510,000 books to over 41,000 local children in need, giving these kids tools to develop the language skills they need to become future readers, learners, and citizens. We want this reach to go as far as possible.

For every Ripple Grove Press book bought and sent to us for CBB in the month of February, we'll match it, and for every dozen new or used books donated (not an RGP book) we’ll add a new RGP book. Hardcover or softcover. One book or 100. We’ll find a new home for your books.

Please help us by sending children’s picture books to:

Ripple Grove Press

PO Box 86740

Portland, OR 97286

For more information on CBB visit www.childrensbookbank.org.