Applying for Books
How do you select which books I receive? Will I get a variety of titles based on the books I ranked with a "yes"?
How do you select which books I receive? Will I get a variety of titles based on the books I ranked with a "yes"?
The Book Bank is First Book's clearinghouse for books donated by First Book's publishing partners. Therefore, the Book Bank is not able to provide a large variety of titles within a given age group based on your application. Almost always, we aim to provide a small number of titles in the necessary quantity such that each child in a given age group can get up to 3 different books -- but they will all get the same selection of books.
For example, when filling out an application, if you indicate that in the 0-3 age group you serve 100 kids and want 3 books per child, we will try to get you at least 100 copies of no more than 3 titles that we have rated suitable for 0-3 year olds (and you have indicated you would like to receive with a "Yes" ranking). At most, this means you can receive 300 books for that age range.