ICYMI: LI Mom Hosting Book Drive For Northport & East Northport

NORTHPORT, NY — A book drive is being held for Northport and East Northport children through the end of June. The drive, launched by Northport mother Molly Feeney Wood and being held in conjunction with Huntington bookstore Book Revue, is intended to get books into the hands of children who are in need during the coronavirus outbreak.

There are a few ways to help children: buying books for them, buying books for yourself, or by donating a Book Revue gift card to a Northport-East Northport teacher.

The Book Revue website offers instructions on each of the three options, which can be read and followed here.

Wood, a mother of three and a literary consultant at school districts, said she got the idea for the drive following the inception of remote learning for students, which was brought on by the pandemic as Long Island schools were forced to close for the remainder of the academic year. The term "book deserts" kept coming to mind for Wood.

"Book deserts are places where children do not have access to high quality, engaging, current books — and it appeared to me that more students were going to be tasked with learning at home without much to read," Wood told Patch. "I started thinking about ways to get books into kids' hands."

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