Barkley's Bookshelf

08/18/2026

🎉 Exciting News! The Shop 'til You Drop Marketplace presented by Cy-Fair Women's Club event is back, featuring 275+ vendors, free admission, and free parking!

🗓 Save the date: September 12, 9 am–4 pm
📍 Location: Berry Center of NW Houston

✨💫🛍️This incredible annual fundraiser helps fund scholarships for local students and supports amazing nonprofits in our community, including Barkley’s Bookshelf! *With proceeds from the 2025 Marketplace, the Cy-Fair Women's Club awarded 20 scholarships of $2,000 each to CFISD-area graduating seniors and also awarded $40,000 to 20 nonprofits.👏👏👏

Your participation helps make a difference!
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08/18/2026

👋Are you a high school or college student passionate about books 📚and community service? Check out the Barkley’s Bookshelf (BB) Young Ambassador Program!📚❤️🐶

✨Students like Kash are already making a difference; she recently led a book drive at Texas A&M and collected 446 books 📚through a Freshman Leadership Organization known as FLASH (Freshman Leaders Advancing in Service and Honor).❤️ Thank you, Kash!!🫶

🤗If you want to help promote literacy, develop leadership skills, and connect with a community of book lovers, learn more about the Barkley’s Bookshelf Young Ambassador Program on our website!

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08/12/2026

📚✨ Wishing all students a fantastic back-to-school year! As you open new books and explore new ideas, remember that every page turned brings you closer to your dreams. Barkley's Bookshelf is cheering you on as you grow, learn, and discover the joy of reading. Here’s to a year filled with curiosity, growth, and the joy of stories. Happy reading!
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08/10/2026

🥰We are loving the participation at Books-A-Million, Cypress, TX!

So many shoppers are supporting Barkley’s mission to ‘enrich children’s love of reading by providing books that they can call their own.’

🗓️Sunday, August 16th is the last day. Be sure and stop by this awesome BOOK store at 28640 Hwy 290 in Cypress and pick a book or two to donate. 📖📚❤️

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08/07/2026

📚Did you know that is helping Barkley’s Bookshelf get new books for our kids?

🗓️Stop by the Store at 6863 HWY 6 North Houston, TX between 8/8 and 8/30 to donate.

All funds raised will be used to help us get books from First Book. 👏👏👏

08/04/2026

Thank you, Cypress-Hwy 6 My Neighborhood News, for the fantastic article! We are happiest when we are providing books for free, for children to choose, and call their own.

Every child is a reader, and every child is a book owner.
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For hundreds of children across Northwest Houston, summer reading became more than an assignment this year. It became a chance to bring home a book, keep it and begin building a personal library. Barkley’s Bookshelf, a Cypress-based nonprofit focused on children’s literacy and book owner...

07/26/2026

Thank you, Books-A-Million! This is a great way to spend some time indoors and support children’s literacy. ☀️📚❤️🐶

07/18/2026

🌟📚 Barkley’s Bookshelf is honored to be a recipient of a BOOK DRIVE by Books-A-Million! 📚🌟

🗓️Starting Sunday, July 19th through August 16th, stop by the Fairfield Town Center location (28640 Hwy 290, Cypress, TX) to support Barkley’s Bookshelf. 🛍️📚🥰

🤔📖You can choose a book to donate either from the in-store kiosk featuring our most-needed titles or from your personal favorites.

☺️Thank you for helping make a real impact for local kids in need, and fostering a lifelong love of reading through book ownership! 📕📗📘📙Special thanks to Books-A-Million, Cypress for the community support!

Vision:
📚❤️Every child is a reader, and every child is a book owner.📚❤️🐶

Mission:
📚❤️Enriching children’s love of reading by providing books that they can call their own.📚❤️🐶

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07/17/2026

🥰Barkley’s Bookshelf is honored to be a 2026 grant recipient from the Cy-Fair Women's Club! These funds will enable us to continue our mission and vision of providing children with books they can call their own.📚❤️🐶

Proceeds from the CWC Shop ‘til You Drop Marketplace,🛍️held in September, fund grants and scholarships from the Cy-Fair Women’s Club. Thank you, Cy-Fair Women’s Club.🩷

07/13/2026

🎉Barkley’s Bookshelf is happy to announce that we are a 2026 grant recipient from the CenterPoint Energy Foundation! This grant funds our various literacy initiatives, with a focus on Title 1 school book fairs, where every student receives a new book of their choice for their personal library.

✨The CenterPoint Energy Foundation strives to become a community catalyst in the communities where we live and work, leveraging everyday opportunities to achieve extraordinary outcomes. The CenterPoint Energy Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization funded by non-utility related transactions and is not an element of customers’ energy bills. Go to https://www.centerpointenergy.com/en-us/business/in-your-community/giving-back/corporate-giving?sa=ho to learn more.

Thank you, CenterPoint Energy Foundation!🙂

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📚❤🐶Every child is a reader, and every child is a book owner.

📚❤🐶Enriching children's love of reading by providing books that they can call their own.