Lyd's Kids: Every Child Deserves A Book

11/11/2025

Time to go shopping. Barnes and Noble has the perfect gift for anyone on your list. While you are there, make a donation in support of Lyd’s Kids -get books into the hands of children in our community. Many of these children do not have any books of their own or have any access to books at home.

11/09/2025

It’s tiiiiimmmee!!!
Please consider helping us continue our mission of getting books into the hands of the children in our community. Barnes & Noble

10/19/2025

I sincerely hope you can help us on our mission to get books into the hands of the children in our community.
Here is a great informative article provided by the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance :

Barnes and Noble in Fargo will be supporting our organization this holiday season.SInce the beginning, we have reached over 6,000 children and students in the FM and surrounding areas with books- many of which are the only gifts they will receive. Our goal is to get books into their hands and into their homes to begin the love of books and reading for future success.

Why Do Kids Need Books?
Books create warm emotional bonds between adults and kids when they read books together.

Books help kids develop basic language skills and profoundly expand their vocabularies—much more than any other media.

Books are interactive; they demand that kids think. Fiction and nonfiction books widen our consciousness. They give us new ways to think and new ideas. They expand our universe beyond time and place and inspire our own original thoughts.

Books develop critical thinking skills. A book is read by an individual. It has no laugh track or musical score that emotionally primes a reader’s reaction. You alone decide what you think about a book and its contents with no one leaning over your shoulder telling you how to think.

Books develop and nourish kids’ imaginations, expanding their worlds. Picture books introduce young children to the world of art and literature. Novels and nonfiction books stimulate kids’ sensory awareness, helping kids to see, hear, taste, feel, and smell on an imagined level. Books inform our imaginations, inspiring creativity.

Books let kids try on the world before they have to go out into it. Books give kids an opportunity to experience something in their imaginations before it happens to them in real life. Books help prepare kids for their next stage of maturity, vicariously preparing for the “grown-up” world.

Books help us to understand ourselves, to find out who we are. Books strengthen our self-confidence and help us to understand why we are who we are. They help us discover where we come from and help us figure out where we want to go.

Books help children and adults to open up, to move beyond self-absorption and connect to other people. Books show us the inner workings of multiple perspectives and let us know there is more than one way to view the world. Books build connections and broaden our capacity to empathize; they help us to understand others. Books help us to become more compassionate.

Books help kids to chart their own moral and ethical course. Books help us to reflect on right and wrong, good and evil. Books can offer guidance and help us to determine our life priorities, our own set of values.

Books answer questions.

Books create questions.

Books provide the opportunity to share cultural experiences. When kids read the same book, enjoying a common reading experience, peer bonds are built within a generation. When children, parents, and grandparents share classic books, extended familial and community bonds are formed creating a shared frame of reference.

Books offer a wide breadth of information, experience, and knowledge. But unlike many electronic media, books also offer a great depth of information, experience, and knowledge. Books inform us about other people, other countries, other customs and cultures. Books help us to teach ourselves about history, the arts, science, religion, nature, mathematics, and technology –– anything and everything in our universe and beyond. Books also help us to understand the effect that all those things have on us and our world.

Books entertain and offer a great escape. They make us laugh and giggle. They make us cry.

Books — unlike many other entertainments –– are free for everyone. You can find the book you need, for free, at your neighborhood public library.

Books are great companions. You are never lonely when you have a book to read.

Books comfort us. Books help us understand that no matter who we are, or what our experiences may be, we are not alone in the world.

BOOKS INSPIRE US TO DREAM.

BOOKS GIVE US THE TOOLS TO ACHIEVE OUR DREAMS.

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10/11/2025

I just read a statistic about books/ reading in North Dakota. First, ND has the fewest amount of bookstores.
Second- only 16% of adults are reading and ONLY 2% of parents are reading to the children.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE- help us get books into the hands of kids to bring home and share them with their families. We are taking new book donations at anytime. Please let us know if you have any!

12/09/2024

12/08/2024

It’s starting…. Sorting the books.
Special thank you to Barnes and Noble, Amanda and Chad Pfau, Theresa Halvorson with Trilogy Real Estate, and Carson with the Red River Valley Fair for their generosity and donations to keep us going. Many special friends also having given their time and talents to help wrap and organize. Thank you can’t even cover the gratitude I have for each of you !

11/20/2024

This year we will be wrapping our books at the Red River Valley Fair Grounds. Thank you to Carson for the use of a heated building to accommodate us and the Pfau family for feeding us.
Your generosity in supporting our efforts to find homes for books needing children to love them is appreciated beyond words.
Thank you to the Barnes and Noble team for the collecting and boxing up the donations that our community is willing to provide to our children. Their love of learning and reading begins with us and we strive to make it our mission.
There are so many people that are so willing to help and it is emotional to see the work and all the efforts worth it when a child connects with a book.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all of you! This could not happen without you!

11/08/2024

Remember: Barnes and Noble is helping us collect boos. So when you are there purchasing books for your family and friends, please consider helping us get books into the hands of children in our area.

11/07/2024

We are looking for a space to use for a few days to store the books as we sort them by age group and then have our "elves" wrap them for children in the community.
It would need to be a space that could handle approx 20 people to wrap and get read for delivery. Please let me know if you have a space around Dec 8-10. We would need the space a few days since we will have thousands of books to organize by age group and organizations in need.

10/21/2024

It's time to start thinking about the holidays and finding homes for books that need a loving home. More and more children are not getting the reading or books outside of school because of many obstacles they face. Please consider buying a book to help a child start their very own library of books to keep and treasure as their own. Barnes and Noble will again be a place to show your support .
If you have any other donations, please reach out and I can pick up or you could also mail to me. Message me with any questions.
Thank you

02/22/2024

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