A Good Book Drive: Val Jacober

A Good Book Drive has teamed up with a great group of independent Vancouver retailers that will each house a Good Book Box. Here you can drop off your favorite kids book and personalize your donation with a special bookplate, sharing the story of why that book is special to you.

		A Good Book Drive is an annual book drive to bring stories to a new generation of readers, and support kids in need of new books. Running through the month of November, A Good Book Drive will be inspiring Vancouverites to purchase a new copy of their favorite kids’ book and deliver it to set locations throughout the city to be donated to this year’s book drive recipient, Vancouver literacy program The Writers Exchange.

Val Jacober, Behaviour Support Worker for youth in North Vancouver, donated Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

“Words are things, I’m convinced. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial perjoratives and sexual perjoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.” - Dr. Maya Angelou

Val hopes this biography will remind us all that we always have the ability to learn no matter how old we are...

Learn more about the project and where to donate by visiting agoodbookdrive.com and follow on Twitter and Facebook.