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When the jar was full, we would have a party! That’s the way we rolled in my fourth grade class, and it felt awesome to cause a marble to fall into the jar with a satisfying “clink!” 
So, when we brainstormed meaningful and sustainable ways to give back, tracking progress with a marble jar came right to my mind.
We’ve talked a lot about the importance of home libraries for children’s future success. There’s no official ideal number, but the more books, the better.
Unfortunately, children in low income neighborhoods have access to as little as 0.003 books. That’s right, some low income neighborhoods have an alarming ratio: 1 age appropriate book for every 300 children!
We’d like to do something about that.
Knowing the power that access to relevant and age appropriate books has to fight illiteracy, we’ve engineered a way for you to give back by adding a marble to our virtual jar with every single order.
When that jar is full, we send a party–a Book Party!  What is a book party? A box filled to the brim with brand new books, and sent to a domestic non-profit that is fighting illiteracy. Imagine how an entire box of books could improve the odds for even just one of these neighborhoods!
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