Help us find a new home by June 2020
The San Francisco Mayor's Office of Housing and the SF Unified School District are redeveloping our book site location as teacher housing. Project developer MidPen Housing submitted their plans to the San Francisco Planning Department in March 2019, with environmental...
Buy One/Give One until May 3
Holiday Gift Wrap at Folio Books
On December 16-23, volunteers from the Children's Book Project will wrap your gifts at Folio Books in Noe Valley. Save these dates to get your holiday shopping done, while supporting CBP and a wonderful local bookstore. You can even pre-order books to pick up during...
SFFILM Holiday Family Event & Book Drive at Castro Theatre
On Sunday, December 10 from 9:30 am - 12:30 pm, join SFFILM Education and Academy Award nominated animation studio Tonko House for a special Bay Area premiere screening of their newest work PIG: The Dam Keeper Poems, and a book signing of their debut graphic novel The...
Celebrating 25 Years of Service
Volunteers, Board members, and staff thank all our supporters who joined us on October 1 to celebrate our silver anniversary! We're grateful for the generosity of our event sponsors, including Sarah Goodwin Illustration & Design, artist Michael...
Late Summer 2017
We are OPEN for all regular hours, including Labor Day! SUNDAY OCTOBER 1, 11 am - 2 pm :: CELEBRATING 25 YEARS! A quarter century ago, founder Vicki Pollack noticed a need at local public schools and began collecting and giving away children's books from her home in...
Summer 2017
We are CLOSED June 16 - July 7 *** Please DO NOT drop off books to our book site during these 3 weeks! *** We will be OPEN from Saturday, July 8 (instead of July 1) for all regular hours through the rest of the summer, including Labor Day. CELEBRATING 25 YEARS A...
Late Spring to Early Summer 2017
OPEN for our regular hours—including Memorial Day!—through June 15. CLOSED June 16 - July 7. Please DO NOT drop off books to our book site during these 3 weeks! OPEN again from Saturday, July 8 (instead of July 1) for all regular hours through the rest of the summer....
Spring 2017
We're open for all regular hours listed below, including spring break holidays and Memorial Day. See you soon!
Late January – February 2017
We're OPEN on Presidents' Day February 20.