Celebrate Gratitude AND Give Kids the Gift of Reading This Holiday Season

Please check out a very unique display at The Book Market in Crest Hill - and then consider celebrating gratitude with us and blessing a child with a BryonySeries book this holiday season.

Gratitude

Stop into The Book Market anytime before Thanksgiving and express your gratitude with the BryonySeries gratitude tree.

Cindy created this special tree and the gratitude leaves that will hang from it.

Here's how it works.

Simple select one or more leaves and write your reason for feeling thankful and grateful this year.

Then hang on the tree to inspire the other patrons.

Then return to the store from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Nov. 22 and play our very special gratitude game.

Afterwards, you may take your leaf home as a longlasting reminder to you, especially in dark times.

The leaves are free, our gift to you.

Now read on for book donations.

Book donations

For the past several years, the BryonySeries B.L.O.C.K.S. team has donated Bertrand the Mouse books to a local Santa Services, which Santa distributes to events aimed at low-income children.

Last year, we also spontaneously gave away thirty Bertrand the Mouse books to a local food pantry and one hundred books to local foster families.

In 2023, we partnered with The Book Market and invited patrons to also purchase books for Santa, in order to increase donations. Thanks to everyone's generosity, we provided Santa with 147 books that year.

This year, we are once again collecting Bertrand the Mouse books for Santa Services.

And we are also collecting BryonySeries children's books to donate to the Will County Children's Advocacy Center in Crest Hill: Bertrand the Mouse, The Adventures of Cornell Dyer, and the Girls of the BryonySeries books.

We will be collecting books throughout the holiday season.

For bulk rates, email us at bryonyseries@gmail.com.

You may also purchase BryonySeries books from Amazon (our store is down) and mail to Denise M. Unland, P.O. Box 2789, Joliet, IL, 60436.

Read on for closing message.

And finally, please, please reach out to us or chat with Jan Staley at The Book Market if you have any questions.

Together, we can celebrate the blessings in our lives.

And, together, we can bring the joys of reading to local children this holiday season.

Both gratitude and literacy are gifts that that keep giving long past the expression of gratitude or the end of the book.