A Cincinnati-based organization that distributes free books to students at select schools, including five schools in Northern Kentucky, is hoping to bring the joy of reading to even more kids in the commonwealth.
“It brings books into kids’ homes that might not otherwise have a home library,” said Molly Wesley, the Family Resource Center coordinator at Newport Primary School.
The program Wesley’s discussing is the Curated Book Distribution Program from Queen City Book Bank. Although the organization itself has been around since 1986, this new program didn’t really take off until the org moved to its new warehouse location on Gest Street in Cincinnati in 2021…