1. Jane Doe
1234 Main St
Somewhere, TX 01234
Dear ____________,
Books change lives. Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree, Dr. Seuss’ Horton
Hears a Who, Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White and thousands more far exceed the
realm of classroom curriculums. Books are vital to individual cognitive, emotional,
spiritual, and intellectual exploration, reaching beyond the limits of book reports,
leisurely beach reads, and The New York Times’ Bestseller List. Take a moment to
reflect and ask yourself, which titles have impacted you? Would you be the same
person if you never read them?
But what if you never even had access to them?
FACT: 87 percent of low-income children in your own city begin kindergarten
without basic language skills learned through reading. This is because these children
don’t have access to books in their own home. Did you know that having just 20
books in the home during childhood makes a child more likely to undergo three
years of college education? By giving a child his or her own book, however, you
would be giving our nation’s future scholars the foundation for success.
_______, meet BookSpring. We are a forty-year-old organization devoted to
providing children with books they otherwise would never have. Here at BookSpring,
we turn that seemingly unattainable resource into an available outlet for children and
parents in the Greater Austin area to learn, develop, and explore. Children who learn
to love books by owning one and reading with their families, will cherish books and
reading, always. The joy of reading becomes a part of who they are, and will help them
in school and beyond, for a lifetime.
You are the solution to this problem.
Let’s put 20
books in all
central Texas
homes by
20 20
CREATE A CYCLE OF SUCCESS