To Build a Library

Have a collection of old children's books that is gathering dust in your basement? Bring them on by--we're taking collections! Here at World Next Door, we're helping Signal Mountain third grader Mary Grace Coffman, age 8, gather kid's books for a mobile library in Africa.
You can be a part of the fun--come by our store with an armful and give the magic of Dr. Seuss, Beatrix Potter (or whoever your own particular favorite might be) to give to children in Nigeria.
We'll have more details later as the Coffmans fill us in on their plans, but for now here's a summary from the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Columnist Mark Kennedy featured Mary Grace's quest last in his column last Sunday (read it here). Here's an excerpt from his article:

Mary Grace Coffman, age 8, may be the world’s youngest librarian. The Signal Mountain third grader and her father, pediatrician Allen Coffman, have resolved to help provide a library for a school in Nigeria. “I was amazed that they didn’t have a library,” said Mary Grace, who attends Nolan Elementary and enjoys mystery books. “I told my dad, ‘It’s not a school without a library.’”
The Coffmans came to know about the school through a family friend, Chi Ekwinye, an America-educated Nigerian who earned a doctorate from the University of Georgia and returned to Africa to establish a church-sponsored orphanage, a school and a shelter for battered women.Mary Grace said she and some of her friends have formed a little club they call “World Girls.” They write letters to the kids at the Right Steps School in Abia state Nigeria.
Dr. Coffman said he had read about relief agencies using old shipping containers as makeshift houses, and he had a brainstorm: Why not use one to make an instant library for the school in Africa?His library-in-a-box idea is simple and elegant. The Coffmans have purchased a 40-foot cargo container, about three-quarters the size of a tractor-trailer truck, that they plan to stock with donated children’s books.

Come on down and give--there's lots of reading to be done!