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The New Barefoot Books Web-site Has Launched!

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:19:00 -0400

Stop by today!

TheBarefootStoryteller.BarefootBooks.com

Please also visit my new blog just for Barefoot Books, where you can read about specials and updates...and enter your name for free drawings!

BarefootBooksStoryteller.blogspot.com

New Barefoot Books Web-site Coming Soon!

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:49:00 -0400

Barefoot Books will be launching a new colorful web-site this summer... a new look, new features, but with the same wonderfully enchanting & educational stories, world music, art, puppets, puzzles and more! There will also be the new Ambassador Program, new exciting fund raising opportunities and more new titles! Stay tuned here for updates and special offers, and keep visiting my Barefoot Books web-site:

www.BarefootBooksStoryteller.com

Barefoot Books' Annual Winter Sale

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:23:00 -0500

Barefoot Books' Annual Winter Sale begins Monday December 29th and runs through Monday February 2nd, with savings of up to 80% on selected bestseller titles, limited stock collectibles and even story cds!! Get your shopping lists ready this weekend , and then be sure to visit http:www.BarefootBooksStoryteller.com

next Monday! Happy Holidays!

Books for Africa

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:20:00 -0500

In this season of giving, Barefoot Books could not think of a better time to announce the partnership with Books For Africa, a truly inspiring organization whose mission is to bring the enduring gift of literacy, education and hope to underprivileged children and their communities in Africa.

Books For Africa is the largest shipper of donated books to the African continent. Since 1988, they have sent over 20 million books to 44 African countries and into the hands of rural schoolchildren. Many of these children are taught in primitive schoolrooms without running water, electricity or the basic materials and tools needed to learn. By collecting, sorting and shipping books to these communities, Books For Africa provides these children with the fundamental tools they need to learn, grow and improve their individual lives and the world around them. To learn more, we encourage you to visit the Books For Africa web site and watch this inspiring video on their mission.

This Wednesday Barefoot Books launched a new Books for Africa page on our US website that will allow customers to donate a selection of African-themed books to Books For Africa by "purchasing" them at well below retail value. These donated books, available for either $5 or $3, will be set aside at our warehouse in Wisconsin and picked up in bulk by Books For Africa for shipment to the African continent.

For $5, customers can donate these hardcover titles: We All Went on Safari Mama Panya's Pancakes We're Sailing Down the Nile or Hidden Hippo

For $3, customers can donate these board book titles: How Loud is a Lion or Zoe and her Zebra

Barefoot Books and PBS Kids

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:31:00 -0500

Like many of you, I grew up enjoying the playful and educational programs on PBS KIDS®. Now Barefoot Books is now working together with PBS to create thePBS Parents Collection, a special collection of our favorite books for young children. Barefoot Books and PBS share a commitment to inspire a love of learning and foster the exploration and appreciation of our amazing and diverse world. Happy reading!

First Book

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:27:00 -0400

Good News!!! First Book is strengthening its volunteer Advisory Board network and putting more books into the hands of children from low-income families throughout Maine. During the two years of the grant, First Book will establish at least 2 new Advisory Boards, register 50 new Recipient Groups, and distribute a minimum of 100,000 new books.

To donate to First Book, please visit http://www.firstbook.org/booksforkeeps/thebarefootstoryteller

Arts for Hunger 2008

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:51:00 -0400

A local effort to help those less fortunate in our community through arts, crafts & music, the second annual Arts for Hunger, organized by the Unity Area Rotary Club to raise awareness and funding for local hunger relief efforts, is underway in the Art Gallery at the Unity Centre for the Performing Arts in Unity. The Art Gallery is full of a wide variety of arts and crafts including paintings, pottery, photography, baskets, quilts, woodworking, stained glass, jewelry and much more ~ all donated by local artists and citizens.

In addition, Tree by Leaf will return again this year to perform a benefit concert as part of Arts for Hunger on Saturday, October 25 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10.00 and patrons are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to the concert. Tickets can be purchased at the door or online at www.unitymaine.org

100% of the proceeds generated from the Art Sale and Benefit Concert will be donated to the Volunteer Regional Food Pantry (serves 11 towns in Waldo County), Open Door and People to People.

Thank you for supporting the hunger relief efforts in OUR community.

This post is part of Blog Action Day 08 - Poverty

Puppets For Peace Day : September 29th

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:08:00 -0400

International Puppets for Peace Day was initiated seven years ago after 9/11. The inspiration for it was the image of many hearts and hands around the world focusing on the good. You are invited to join the many others on six continents and celebrate Peace through Story and Puppetry. There can be puppet shows big and small, in public venues, in the quiet of your home, in classroom, school community, well practiced, or spontaneous. They all contribute to the powerful joy-bringing healing of the world. Sharing puppet stories that let goodness shine out, that bring to life cooperation between people, that warm our hearts and make us laugh with the wonder of life, can become story seeds that help us understand the world, and all that is unique and universal in it's people. It is held on Michaelmas Day, September 29th, a day to remind us we can be courageous in the face of chaos, and the "dragons" of the world. (with all due respect to my friend Herb, they mean the un-friendly ones)

Arthur of Albion

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:50:00 -0400

Arthur of Albion now available from Barefoot Books. Read more about it here

Local Children's Book Author in Competition

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:36:00 -0400

Wendi Richards, of Fairfield, is a national finalist in the ABCs Children's Book Competition! Her story, A Little Monster Day, is about a precocious preschooler with an out-of-control imagination. Tanya's pretend play gets her into all sorts of hilarious trouble. But all will be well, because we parents love our little monsters, anyway. You can read A Little Monster Day, along with the nine other finalists at www.abcbookcompetition.org. Each story is posted along with a sample illustration, to give you an idea of how it will look once it is a published picture book. To win this competition and get Wendi's book published, she needs to gather the most on-line votes. Voting runs from Sunday September 21 to Sunday October 5. You can vote once everyday from your home computer. This is an incredible opportunity and I hope you will help Wendi win.