Take a look at some of these stories in the popular press and social media about programs who aim to end book deserts.

 

• Want Kids to Learn the Joy of Reading? Barbershops and Laundromats Can Help (The New York Times, 2019)

• This Campaign is Bringing Summer Reading to Kids in ‘Book Deserts’
  (The Today Show, 2019)

• Where Books are All But Nonexistent (The Atlantic, 2016)

• Book Deserts Leave Low-Income Neighborhoods Thirsty for Reading
  (NBC News, 2017)

• The Travesty of Book Deserts (Mother Nature Network, 2017)

• A Nationwide Effort Launches to Turn ‘Book Deserts’ Into Literary Oases
  (LA Times, 2017)

• A Novel Idea: Fostering Literacy By Eliminating Book Deserts
  (US News & World Report, 2015)

• Neighborhoods Parched for Books (New York Daily News, 2017)

• Addressing Book Deserts  (School Library Journal, 2019)

• How Book Vending Machines Can Help Those Living in America’s Book Deserts (Forbes, 2018)

• #Eliminatingbookdeserts Through Disruption
  (National Council of Teachers of English, 2018)

• Rural Americans Have Less Access to Books: There’s a Way to Fix That
  (Talk Poverty, 2017)

• Book Deserts are Real. Here’s What Schools are Doing to Help Kids Who Live in Them (We are Teachers)  

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VIDEOS

• From Intellectual Deserts to Cultures of Literacy (Amy Friedman, TED TalkxRiNO)

• What is a Book Desert? (YouTube)

• Three Ways to Bring Books to Children Living in Book Deserts (United Way)

• Wash and Learn: Laundromats and Libraries are Fighting ‘Book Deserts’