| Tomas Tomas and Tortuga Press Give 3,000 Books in Spanish to Free Bookmobile |
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Written by admin, January 15th, 2011
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Wow, what a gift! Thanks to an introduction by our good friend Ed Buonaccorsi of the city of Santa Rosa, we were able to get together with Tomas Tomas, Inc President Tom Sawyer and make good things happen. Tomas Tomas (tomastomas.org) builds libraries for children in Mexico in a way that deeply involves the local residents. Tom had already collected a sizable cache of books for his next project when he was forced to change methods of getting books to the library. This allowed him to offer the Free Bookmobile nearly 3,000 titles, mostly for children, and all in Spanish!
We had been struggling to find books en español for the Latino families we serve – this fits the bill wonderfully. Huge thanks to Tom and to Matthew Gollub of Tortuga Press (tortugapress.com), one of his partners who supplied 1,000 copies of the beautiful picture book “Tío Culebra”. We now have a big shelf in the new vehicle dedicated to Spanish titles, available now wherever we set anchor and throw open the doors…
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