December 2024 newsletter

Page Ahead's Fall Wrap-Up

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We did it!

To kick off this year’s holiday season—and the season of giving overall—you, our phenomenal supporters, showed up for us in so many ways. 

For the fifth year in a row, Page Ahead has won the First Tech Season of Giving $10,000 grant! Thanks to your nominations, we not only secured the victory but received the most nominations of any participating organization. This generous grant will allow us to purchase books for 200 children, building home libraries that support their reading journeys.

We’re also thrilled to share that we met—and exceeded—our GivingTuesday matching challenge! This year, our generous sponsors, The Schreiber Family Foundation, provided $10,000 in matching funds for all GivingTuesday gifts. With your support, we surpassed our goal, raising over $20,000 to spend on home libraries for kids who need them most.

Your generosity and efforts are what make our work possible. From all of us at Page Ahead: thank you for championing children’s literacy and helping us open the door to a brighter future for young readers. 


What your support makes possible: preschool reading

We recently shipped copies of Dragons Love Tacos; The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry & the Big Hungry Bear; and, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus to 1,752 preschoolers across Washington as part of our Story Leaders program. Teachers read each book using the shared-reading techniques we train them in, and kids get copies of each book to take home! Learn more here.


Every child deserves new books

Books are the most important tool for learning—and one of life’s greatest pleasures.  No child should grow up without new books in their homes. With your help, they won’t have to.

Please make a gift today. Students like Cassidy are counting on you!

“The new books were the best because I can learn new things in the books and the books are important to me and I love my new books!”

Your tax-deductible gift by December 31, will help us say ‘Yes!’ to even more kids in 2025. Thank you for making a difference!


All of us at Page Ahead send warm holiday wishes to you—our heroes!

This holiday season, we extend our heartfelt thanks to you—our incredible community of supporters. Your advocacy, financial support, and volunteer efforts have brought the joy of choosing new books and building home libraries to thousands of kids across Washington.

What a wonderful gift you’ve given—thank you!


What we’re reading…

Darryl Wong is a Page Ahead volunteer who supports Page Ahead in a variety of ways, such as restocking Book Oasis little free libraries, helping us at special events, and packing the thousands of books for our Story Leaders programs. He recently finished Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu. 
 
Interior Chinatown has been on his reading list for quite some time, but he moved it to the top of the list once the new Hulu series was announced. Darryl always prefers to read a book before watching its adaptation! Interior Chinatown grapples with what it means to be Asian and Asian-American in Hollywood. Protagonist Willis Wu is hoping for his big break in Hollywood, but once he is there, he struggles with his identity and Hollywood’s orientalist depiction of Asians and Asian-Americans. With his unique writing style and format, Charles Yu embeds the reader into Willis’s psyche and the acting world. 
 
When looking for books to read, Darryl searches for books by Asian-American authors. Next on his list is No-no Boy by John Okada. 

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