A STORYBOOK CHRISTMAS
Established in 1991

Are your scout troops looking for a great service project?  Storybook Christmas might be the answer. 

Storybook Christmas was established in 1991 with the intention of giving children ages 3-10 in McLennan County a book of their own.  Annually Storybook Christmas delivers thousands of books to schools in the county.  With illiteracy at such a high rate, it is important to encourage our children to read at an early age.  Many of your scouts may have been the recipient of one of these books.

In an effort to include more children in giving back to the community, we would like to encourage your troops to help raise money for Storybook Christmas or collect age-appropriate books.  There are many ways they can do this and are only limited by their imagination.  A few suggestions are:

• Hold a fundraiser – i.e. bake sale, raffle, etc.
• Bring a new age-appropriate book to a scout meeting

• Collect loose change in a jar at each meeting for the purchase of books

In return, Storybook Christmas can help you by:

• Being available to meet with your leaders and further explain Storybook Christmas and how the scouts can help
• Receiving funds collected and purchase books (Troops can purchase books themselves if they wish, but if Storybook Christmas does it we get a better rate as we buy in volume.)
• Being available to answer any questions

We are excited about the prospect of having the scouts involved in Storybook Christmas and look forward to hearing from you.

Dorothy Chubb                                               Pat Hutyra

achubb@hot.rr.com                                        phutyra@hot.rr.com