Signal Boost!

[megwrites]

kiviuq is asking for donations of children's books, aged 0-9 in in this entry, for a wonderful program in Canada that reaches out to incarcerated women and their children by letting the mothers record a reading of a book for their children and then giving that recording on CD to their children, so they can hear that voice reading a story to them.

I know that the voices of my mother and my grandmothers reading stories to me, telling me bedtime stories is a memory that is dear to me. I can vividly recall being on my grandmother's giant bed, listening to her steady, measured voice, thick with it's high Kentucky accent, reading me Peter Pan.

I can't imagine what it would be like not to have these memories, that knowledge of being loved and able to reach out and hug my mother and listen to her everyday - but so many (too many) children do, and this is something that can help them.

Please go read, and if you can donate anything, let the OP know. I know a lot of you have kids or children in your life who may have outgrown the books you got for them, and this is a really, really worthy cause.

For those U.S.-ians, mailing may be a little more expensive to Canada for you, but even just one book in a padded envelope, sent via media mail (the slowest/cheapest rate for shipping the USPS offers) can be useful. Luckily, children's books tend to be smaller and lighter, so you could send more...just saying.