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Oct 19, 2014

Launching the Mind

By Mimi O’Brien and Todd Taylor, The Durham Rotary Club Suddenly, it’s show time! The set-up is finished, the personal shoppers are in...

Oct 2, 2014

Interview: A Kid’s Perspective

By Griffin Maynard, Student & Volunteer What was your favorite children’s book? That’s a hard one. I really liked Iggy Peck Architect,...

Sep 27, 2014

One Student. 8,000 Books.

By Toonie Goyal, Student & Book Drive Host My first experience with Book Harvest was on Martin Luther King Day in 2013. I wasn’t really...

Sep 8, 2014

The Power of Pictures

By Deborah Hirsch, Book Harvest Volunteer At my house, one of our favorite genres of books is wordless picture books. Wordless picture...

Aug 30, 2014

Giving Dreams

By Tina CoyneSmith, Guest Blog Entry The second best gift I have ever received was a series of books—Trixie Belden mysteries to be...

Aug 21, 2014

A Life-Changing Gift

By Daniele Berman, Operations Manager, Book Harvest When my oldest child was not yet three years old, he was whining in the backseat of...

Aug 14, 2014

Reaching Out

By Sara Skinner, Therapist, Carolina Outreach As a therapist who works primarily with Spanish-speaking families, I often struggle to find...

Aug 9, 2014

Momentum

By Catriona Moore, ESL Teacher, Forest View Elementary School “When you get, give. When you learn, teach.” I love the no-nonsense...

Jul 24, 2014

Reading is Believing

By Hannah Marion, Intern, Summer 2014 Back in the day, when I was an eager little first grader, I picked countless picture books out of...