{"id":4874,"date":"2022-04-11T10:59:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T09:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/?p=4874"},"modified":"2022-04-11T10:59:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T09:59:21","slug":"so-this-is-what-3888-childrens-books-looks-like-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/2022\/04\/11\/so-this-is-what-3888-childrens-books-looks-like-2\/","title":{"rendered":"So this is what 3,888 children\u2019s books looks like!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cannock Soroptimists launched a campaign asking children in Rugeley, Hednesford, Burntwood, Cannock and Penkridge to donate pre-loved books for Books4Home, a Rotary project run by Beverley Ricketts to provide books to children who may not otherwise ever own a book; a project Soroptimists have supported for some time.<\/p>\n<p>President Jackie Prince set an ambitious target of 2,000 books, &#8211; if you aim for the moon, you\u2019ll certainly catch a star!\u00a0 Well \u2013 it seems they\u2019ve entered a galaxy far, far away as the number of books donated by the most generous families is almost double that number!\u00a0 And many who have donated along with the venues who accepted the donations have said that they would love to continue!<\/p>\n<p>The books have now been delivered to Beverley and she and her volunteers have begun to sort them ready for delivery to schools and groups in the coming weeks.\u00a0 This is a win-win project, bringing joy to those who are able to donate and help other children and to those who receive: they can have the pleasure and joy of being taken into other worlds with the magic of fiction or of discovering so much about our lives and our planet through the factual books; and the life span of every book is lengthened, thus becoming environmentally friendly!<\/p>\n<p>As Beverley pointed out, these books would have cost over \u00a320,000 to buy \u2013 no school library could ever afford that, but there is no price to be put on giving a child a book of their own to cherish.<\/p>\n<p>Further details about this project and all that Cannock Soroptimists are involved with are also available on\u00a0 their Facebook page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SICannock\">www.facebook.com\/SICannock<\/a>; or on twitter: @sicannock.\u00a0 If you would like to be involved please email <a href=\"mailto:soropscannock@gmail.com\">soropscannock@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2022\/04\/Books4Homes-delivery-12.03.22-9-Large.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4875\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2022\/04\/Books4Homes-delivery-12.03.22-9-Large-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2022\/04\/Books4Homes-delivery-12.03.22-9-Large-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2022\/04\/Books4Homes-delivery-12.03.22-9-Large.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Photo: Beverley Ricketts, far right; with Jackie Prince, President SI Cannock &amp; District 5<sup>th<\/sup> from left; and the Soroptimists\u2019\u00a0 Book Team showing off a set of \u2018Little Miss\u2019 books!! \u2013 and <strong><u>3,888<\/u><\/strong> books!!\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannock Soroptimists launched a campaign asking children in Rugeley, Hednesford, Burntwood, Cannock and Penkridge to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>So this is what 3,888 children\u2019s books looks like! | News | Blog | Events | SI Cannock and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Cannock and District : Blog &amp; News : So this is what 3,888 children\u2019s books looks like! : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Cannock and District . 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