My Own Book

08/15/2015

It's time for you to write the next chapter:
http://myownbook.net/

08/27/2013

We are only 550 books away from reaching 50,000 books given away!

08/19/2013

Our co-founders visited the New York City Public Library and toured "The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter" exhibit there. We took pictures to share some of the cool parts of the exhibit. Here is the website for the exhibit: http://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/abc-it. It is around until March 2014 and we would highly recommend you should stop by and see it if you find yourself in New York City.

08/18/2013

Junior Giants 2013 at AT&T Park in San Francisco, CA!

08/18/2013

Off to AT&T Park to work with the Junior Giants and give away more than 2,000 books! Pictures to follow.

06/02/2013

Our co-founder Kyle attended a talk by James Watson (co-discoverer of the double helix; his Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson). Below are two quotes we liked from his speech:

"One of the most important things in my house when I was growing up was books. I was born in 1928 on the eve of the Great Depression and by 1934 my father's salary had been cut in half. But because my parents knew reading was so important, any spare money we had we spent on used books."

"When I got to Indiana [University], I noticed that people started treating me better because I knew more; and that came out of reading."

James Dewey Watson, KBE, ForMemRS (born April 6, 1928), is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, best known as a co-discoverer of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick. Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for...

06/01/2013

Use your weekend (if it's nice in your neck of the woods) to enjoy the weather!

05/30/2013

More evidence on why reading is so important from a young age: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/education/reading-gains-lag-improvements-in-math.html?emc=eta1.

Help us spread the love of reading by visiting our website (http://www.myownbook.net/) and donating or emailing us to find out how else you can help!

Schools that work with low-income students are consistently finding that problems with math are more easily addressed than problems with reading.

05/26/2013

Go somewhere magical on your long weekend... pick up a book and read to a child you know.

05/04/2013

Solano Community College's women's basketball team shines on the basketball court, but team members are leaders in the community, as well. The team will partner with the nonprofit group, My Own Boo...

05/04/2013

On May 1st, 2013, My Own Book partnered with the Solano Community College Women's Basketballl team to share the love of reading at the Fairfield Civic Center Public Library.

04/07/2013

We love reading. Take a peek at these awesome libraries: http://travel.cnn.com/explorations/escape/7-coolest-libraries-world-934450?hpt=hp_c4

Great places to share the love of reading!

Sometimes, the packaging is just as good as what's inside