On Saturday, WriteOn Joliet participated in Kidz Fest in downtown Joliet for the second year in a row, hosted by the Joliet City Center Partnership.
We talked to passersby about WriteOn Joliet and invited them to play our "build-a-story" word blocks.
We gave away more than one hundred handmade "write-your-own" poetry books, created by WriteOn member Holly Coop.
We came out with more than one hundred colorable book marks. We did still have bookmarks left over for next year. That's OK.
Because we gave away approximately three hundred and fifty books for kids, tweens, teens, and adults, all authored by WriteOn Joliet authors.
This post "Help Us Promote Reading in Will County This Summer" has details on those books (who wrote them and how to get your own copies).
The original goal was three hundred. But we had some surprise donations - including nine random BryonySeries books someone ordered and shipped to my P.O. box at the eleventh hour.
And Mauverneen Blevins' "bird" book went so fast, she returned to her car to donate five additional copies - and those were quickly scooped iup, too.
Now, when I say "we" did this, I meant "we" as a group. I came out for the initual setup (although I set up nothing) and was onsite for probably less than fifteen minutes.
No, "we" was Rebekah Baran, Mauverneen Blevins, Holly Coop, Steve Cordin, Sue Midlock, and Judy Quilty Smith.
By noon, we had less than fifty books left - and even those were gone before Kidz Fest ended at 3 p.m.
By noon, not a single poetry book remained.
From my perch on the couch with Tiny, I cheered each update from the behind the scenes: less than fifty books left, twelve books left, five, four, three, two, one and NONE!
We look forward to being a bigger and better blessing in 2026.
Photo my Mauverneen Blevins
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