free books Archives - TettyBetty TettyBetty Mon, 10 Dec 2018 09:04:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 This School Created a Book-Vending Machine and the Kids Love it https://tettybetty.com/this-school-created-a-book-vending-machine-and-kids-loved-it/ Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:31:58 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=16208 There’s a unique vending machine that kids are enjoying in the city of New York. It’s not chips or candies or sodas that the machine is filled with, but new books! A Buffalo public school is the first in the city to launch a book vending machine. It is the latest literacy tool at Arthur […]

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]]> There’s a unique vending machine that kids are enjoying in the city of New York. It’s not chips or candies or sodas that the machine is filled with, but new books!

A Buffalo public school is the first in the city to launch a book vending machine. It is the latest literacy tool at Arthur O. Eve School of Distinction #61, where it was installed in the corner of the school library. The school is offering golden tokens to insert into the vending machine that will dispense age-appropriate books for students in prekindergarten through 4th grade. Each month, the students will earn a trip to the library and a token for a book of their choice.

The machine was the idea of Unseld Robinson, assistant principal at the school, who had heard about a similar one in Washington, D.C.

“Many children in Buffalo are not reading as much as they should,” Robinson told The Buffalo News, “so the thought was to have them look to the vending machine for inspiration.”

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]]> This Restaurant Gives A Free Book With Each Meal https://tettybetty.com/restaurant-gives-free-book-meal/ Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:43:22 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=8232 Traveler Restaurant, which opened in the 1970s, offers each diner a free book from its vast library. The owner of the small-town Connecticut bistro was a big reader and after his house got filled with books, he decided to give most of them to his customers. When the owners of the restaurant changed in 1993, they continued […]

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]]> Traveler Restaurant, which opened in the 1970s, offers each diner a free book from its vast library.

The owner of the small-town Connecticut bistro was a big reader and after his house got filled with books, he decided to give most of them to his customers. When the owners of the restaurant changed in 1993, they continued this generous tradition and even made it bigger.

“We give away 1 to 2 thousand books a week. We have expanded it to three books per person. The books come from many sources. Library book sales are our best but our customers are a very big contributing factor, not a single day goes by that someone doesn’t bring us books. We have given away approximately 2.5 million books since we have been here,” the owner told Bored Panda.

“We have a horse trailer that we pick up books with. Some weeks we can go to 4 different libraries to pick up books. There are about 9 thousand books on our shelves for them to choose from.”

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]]> ersion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> free books Archives - TettyBetty TettyBetty Mon, 10 Dec 2018 09:04:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 This School Created a Book-Vending Machine and the Kids Love it https://tettybetty.com/this-school-created-a-book-vending-machine-and-kids-loved-it/ Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:31:58 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=16208 There’s a unique vending machine that kids are enjoying in the city of New York. It’s not chips or candies or sodas that the machine is filled with, but new books! A Buffalo public school is the first in the city to launch a book vending machine. It is the latest literacy tool at Arthur […]

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]]> There’s a unique vending machine that kids are enjoying in the city of New York. It’s not chips or candies or sodas that the machine is filled with, but new books!

A Buffalo public school is the first in the city to launch a book vending machine. It is the latest literacy tool at Arthur O. Eve School of Distinction #61, where it was installed in the corner of the school library. The school is offering golden tokens to insert into the vending machine that will dispense age-appropriate books for students in prekindergarten through 4th grade. Each month, the students will earn a trip to the library and a token for a book of their choice.

The machine was the idea of Unseld Robinson, assistant principal at the school, who had heard about a similar one in Washington, D.C.

“Many children in Buffalo are not reading as much as they should,” Robinson told The Buffalo News, “so the thought was to have them look to the vending machine for inspiration.”

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]]> This Restaurant Gives A Free Book With Each Meal https://tettybetty.com/restaurant-gives-free-book-meal/ Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:43:22 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=8232 Traveler Restaurant, which opened in the 1970s, offers each diner a free book from its vast library. The owner of the small-town Connecticut bistro was a big reader and after his house got filled with books, he decided to give most of them to his customers. When the owners of the restaurant changed in 1993, they continued […]

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]]> Traveler Restaurant, which opened in the 1970s, offers each diner a free book from its vast library.

The owner of the small-town Connecticut bistro was a big reader and after his house got filled with books, he decided to give most of them to his customers. When the owners of the restaurant changed in 1993, they continued this generous tradition and even made it bigger.

“We give away 1 to 2 thousand books a week. We have expanded it to three books per person. The books come from many sources. Library book sales are our best but our customers are a very big contributing factor, not a single day goes by that someone doesn’t bring us books. We have given away approximately 2.5 million books since we have been here,” the owner told Bored Panda.

“We have a horse trailer that we pick up books with. Some weeks we can go to 4 different libraries to pick up books. There are about 9 thousand books on our shelves for them to choose from.”

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