Friends of the Batavia Library Join All Hallow’s Read Celebration

The Friends of the Batavia Public Library is joining the celebration for the holiday of All Hallow’s Read. What is All Hallow’s Read? All Hallow’s Read is a holiday that traces its roots to an October 2010 blog post by writer Neil Gaiman (author of American Gods and Coraline). The premise of the holiday is simple: give someone a scary book for Halloween.

The Friends would like to help everyone celebrate this reading holiday. Instead of collecting the wide variety of books you would need to hand out one book to every child that stops by your house on Halloween, consider the Friends alternative —coupons.

The Friends are selling coupons that allows its holder (ages infant to 18) to receive 1 free children’s book or paperback from the Friends of the Batavia Library Saturday book sale or from the Friends’ corner sale on the main floor of the library. Hand these coupons out at Halloween and you have given each child a book.

Coupons will be available in packs of 10 for $2.50 (that’s $0.25 per book) at the Friends book sale on October 8th or at the library’s front desk during the entire month of October. If you have any questions, please contact the Friends at friends@bataviapubliclibrary.org.

The Friends of the Batavia Public Library is a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization that support summer and winter reading programs for all age levels, One Book, One Batavia, the Alphabet Garden, the Margaret Cooper Scholarship for Library pages and other projects to support reading and the library.