Tag: children’s books

It’s about time! Warm weather seems to be getting closer every day, and with warmer weather, POP will be offering more regular volunteer opportunities and lining up more book donations. Many of our volunteer projects and programs are weather contingent, so we are excited to...

In the history of children’s books, there are few authors as beloved and oft quoted as Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. The writer, illustrator, and poet took the pen name in college, and carried it with him through advertising campaigns during the...

Halloween can be really predictable, or it can be one of the most exciting nights of the year. Winged bats flying at you from behind picture frames are exciting, right? We think so. One way to make the night typically predictable is to give away...

The POP Project is excited to expand our existing Homeward Books program into a quarterly afternoon volunteer opportunity! With your help, we will now be able to deliver thousands of dollars in books to children and adults in need within our community in a single...

Maybe it’s wishful thinking, but the POP Project believes we helped create 20 new fans of “The Phantom Tollbooth” yesterday. Did you know that April 23 is an internationally recognized holiday? Banks don’t close, and buses don’t stop running, but readers across the U.S. and...

Books make great gifts year round, of course, but the holidays provide a special opportunity to give the kind of books that make a big impression, the ones that lead to the kinds of discoveries that only great books can offer us. This isn’t the...

Did you know that 61% of low-income families have NO books at all in their homes for their children? Help make a difference!  Donate your outgrown children’s books to the Read-cycle! program organized by Hands On Asheville Buncombe. The POP Project will put the books...

Though we still have a long way to go in terms of what our young girls are exposed to in popular media, girls have way more choices for good books that address real issues than they did in the 80’s when I was busy reading...