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Holiday Book Fair
All are invited to join the annual Holiday Book fair!
Logistics
Event: Holiday Book Fair: Story and Craft Time for Kids
Date: December 16, 2023
Time: Saturday, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Location: East Congregational Church, 610 Adams Street, Milton, MA
Event Information
All children are invited to kick off the holiday season with books, crafts, and cookies! Every child will receive a free book.
Volunteers from the “Reading Change Lives” literacy initiative at East Church will host arts and crafts, story time, and refreshments.
Our guest bookseller, Barefoot Books (a publisher of diverse, inclusive, and inspiring books, founded by two mothers and based in Cambridge), will be on hand to help shoppers find perfect holiday gifts.
More about “Reading Changes Lives” initiative
East Congregational Church launched its “Reading Changes Lives” literacy initiative in 2014. Our goal is to change people’s lives through the gift of reading. We believe that literacy is essential to equality and justice. As a complicated and broad social justice issue, literacy impacts other issues, including economic justice, gender inequality, criminal justice, public education, and racial justice.
“Reading Changes Lives” built one of the first two “Little Free Libraries” in Milton and has hosted numerous book swaps in town. Since 2016 we have posted “Story Walks” in Crane Field and East Milton Square. We sponsor an annual Holiday Book Fair after Thanksgiving. During the East Milton Halloween Stroll, we host “Trick or Treat for Books” on our front lawn and distribute free books to children.
East Church adopted the dormant school library at the Roosevelt K-8 School in Hyde Park and invested thousands of hours into revitalizing it. The library reopened with a grand gala in 2016, and East Church provides volunteers to staff the library during class visits at the school every-other week.
For more information, contact the church office at (617) 698-0270 or Rev. Shelly Davis at (617) 698-0229.
Event Links
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/2133137-0
