Thanks so much for watching! I hope you found this video on how to make the most out of gifting our children's books helpful. Be sure to find me over on Instagram & TikTok, so we can connect there as well!
I like the idea of donating a book to the little neighborhood library, but they located on the grounds of a fire station by us. Many of them unmanned. Hmm...
Sounds good in theory, but im my experience left a bad taste in my mouth! I have published 35 children's books and have 10 grand children. I reached out to the school libraries they attend offering to donate all my books. Zero replies!...yep, libraries nowadays are so ??? that they don't reply to unsolicited emails! In other words, if they didn't approach you first, then they're not interested. I made personal representations to one school and queried why they wouldn't accept the gift of free books. When they realised it wasn't a scam, yes the kids even put on a play of one of my books 'Red Ants'. But I never made a single sale. My local state library is my so called sponsor, as every book published in Australia by law has to be submitted and registered nationally and stored, can't even get their act together and list my books on their website properly. I just put it down to the growing mindset that books, paper ones, are considered dinosaurs now, and kids only want narrated ones because reading is all too hard? Sad 😢
Thanks so much for watching! I hope you found this video on how to make the most out of gifting our children's books helpful. Be sure to find me over on Instagram & TikTok, so we can connect there as well!
Hi Eevi, thanks for this suggestion ❤
I like the idea of donating a book to the little neighborhood library, but they located on the grounds of a fire station by us. Many of them unmanned. Hmm...
Sounds good in theory, but im my experience left a bad taste in my mouth! I have published 35 children's books and have 10 grand children. I reached out to the school libraries they attend offering to donate all my books. Zero replies!...yep, libraries nowadays are so ??? that they don't reply to unsolicited emails! In other words, if they didn't approach you first, then they're not interested. I made personal representations to one school and queried why they wouldn't accept the gift of free books. When they realised it wasn't a scam, yes the kids even put on a play of one of my books 'Red Ants'. But I never made a single sale. My local state library is my so called sponsor, as every book published in Australia by law has to be submitted and registered nationally and stored, can't even get their act together and list my books on their website properly. I just put it down to the growing mindset that books, paper ones, are considered dinosaurs now, and kids only want narrated ones because reading is all too hard? Sad 😢