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FREE BOOKS FOR YOUR FAMILY

Usborne Books gives you the opportunity to earn many free books for your home library. You can do this by becoming a consultant or hosting an Usborne Book Show. For more information on hosting your own show, click here. UBAM consultants can earn free books every month through sales challenges and also have the opportunity to order brand new titles before they are released to the public!

FREE BOOKS FOR YOUR SCHOOL

The Usborne "Reading Is A Gift" book fair program was developed by Usborne Books to encourage reading and at the same time, raise money and/or free books for your school or organization. We understand the needs and challenges faced by organizations trying to raise funds so we've designed the program to make it both easy on sponsors and successful in reaching your fundraising goals! With the FREE book and/or cash incentives that are in place for each book fair sponsor, your fundraising options are as easy as 1, 2, 3:

   1. Cash - fund special projects, teacher resources or extras for your students
   2. Money and books - provides the sponsor with cash and FREE books for the library
   3. FREE books - Up to 50% of retail sales in free books

Reading is a Gift Book Fairs are Hassle-free
With more than 8,000 Usborne Consultants in the United States alone, your "Reading Is A Gift" book fair partner is probably right around the corner and ready to work hard for your fundraiser. An Usborne educational consultant will literally take you by the hand and walk you through a fund-raising and mind-enriching event where there are two winners - your students and your school! All of the Usborne "Reading Is A Gift" book fair promotional materials are provided by the consultant to help make your event a huge success.


Usborne Books Creates A Fundraiser That Keeps On Giving
The Usborne family of books is internationally acclaimed as the finest educational children's book line-up in the marketplace today. Usborne offers over 1,300 fiction and non-fiction titles that inspire, enthrall and teach your students through reading. As a sponsor, you can choose from a wide range of subjects covering hobbies, science, nature, parent's guides and more. Is there a better gift to give than the gift of reading? There's no better gift for your school or organization than an Usborne "Reading Is A Gift" book fair event that promotes reading and pays you back in FREE books and/or cash. For more information, please visit www.readingisagift.com.
   

FREE BOOKS AS A FUNDRAISER

Reach For The Stars is a fund raiser program that REWARDS your children for READING by giving them FREE BOOKS as well as new books to your their school. It is a pledge-based reading incentive program that returns over 100% back to the school and students in a combination of Usborne Books and cash.

What is the goal of the program?
The goal of Reach for the Stars!! is for the participants to read, or be read to for 300 minutes over a two week period of time. This is an average of 30 minutes per weekday as recommended by educational experts.

Who can participate?
This program is designed to benefit any organizational group, such as schools, individual classrooms, clubs, preschools, church groups, home school groups, charities, businesses, and public libraries.

Raising Pledges
Parents and children request pledges from mentoring friends and family members to encourage kids to read. Ask your organization if corporate sponsorships are available.

How do the kids benefit?
They develop a reading routine and receive Usborne books and other prizes for participating. Together we can help children discover the joy of reading and give them the opportunity to choose their very own Usborne books to keep!

How can you organization benefit?
Reach for the Stars!! has a flexible option to meet all your needs from books for the library, classroom, community projects, or perhaps cash for a specific purpose. 100% of the pledges are returned to the participants and organization in a combination of all books to some books and some cash.

FREE BOOKS AS A CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION

Literacy for A Lifetime

Educational Development Corporation has developed a program, Literacy for a Lifetime that aligns our company with corporate donors to provide quality products to educational institutions and charitable organizations.

Literacy for a Lifetime incorporates a 50% matching grant for corporate donations to an organization. Example, if a corporation or private foundation has a grant of $10,000 for a local school for supplemental curriculum and it is used to purchase products from Educational Development Corporation, our Company will match it with an additional grant of $5,000. For more information on this wonderful program, please visit www.literacyforalifetime.com

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