The Ripple Effect Book Drive

We started Ripple Grove Press to bring beautiful and timeless books to life.  But we also want to make a difference in the lives of children.  So we are teaming up with the Children’s Book Bank (CBB) in Portland, OR to start a book donation drive called “The Ripple Effect.” We want to put a book in every young child's hands.  The Children’s Book Bank makes that possible.

They reach low-income neighborhoods, where the ratio of books to children is one book for every 300 children, far below the ratio of 13 books per child in middle-income neighborhoods.  The Children's Book Bank closes this book gap by gathering tens of thousands of new and gently-used books from the community each year and engaging hundreds of volunteers to help clean, sort, and distribute the books to low-income children, free of charge.  Since 2008, The Children’s Book Bank has delivered over 510,000 books to over 41,000 local children in need, giving these kids tools to develop the language skills they need to become future readers, learners, and citizens.  We want this reach to go as far as possible.

For every Ripple Grove Press book bought and sent to us for CBB in the month of March, we'll match it, and for every dozen new or used books donated (not an RGP book) we’ll add a new RGP book.  Hardcover or softcover.  One book or 100.  We’ll find a new home for your books.

Please help us by sending children’s picture books to:

Ripple Grove Press

PO Box 86740

Portland, OR 97286

For more information on how to help and donate, please visit: www.RippleGrovePress.com 

For more information on CBB visit www.childrensbookbank.org.

Thank you for your support and helping us in this drive. Hopefully we’ll create a story to tell.

Write to Publish Conference this Saturday!

We are very excited to be a part of this local writing conference this Saturday. Organized by Ooligan Press. Affiliated with Portland State University, Ooligan is a not-for-profit general trade press that publishes books honoring the cultural and natural diversity of the Pacific Northwest.

Check out the program here.  And stop by to buy some books, talk writing for children, children's publishing, and meet Ripple Grove Press.

Thank you!

Thank you to everyone who came out this weekend to support us at Wordstock, Barnes and Noble, and Green Bean Books. Our events were wildly successful! Check out some pictures from the weekend below.

And remember, we still have one more event tomorrow at 11am at Green Bean Books with Abraham Schroeder.

Wordstock is a week away!

We are beyond excited to be a part of the Wordstock relaunch next Saturday, November 7!

Ripple Grove Press will have a booth at the book fair, in the Mark Building at the Portland Art Museum (#63). We hope if you're in the neighborhood you'll stop by and say hello, buy a book, meet our authors, and talk about children's books!

All Ripple Grove Press books will be specially priced for sale at $15 at the event.

At 11am, Jami Gigot, author of Mae and the Moon, will be signing at our booth.

At 2pm Abraham Schroeder, author of The Gentleman Bat and Too Many Tables, will be signing at our booth.

Also check out our Events page for the other story times scheduled with Jami and Abraham for that weekend!

New Event! Write to Publish 2016

We’re excited to be part of Ooligan Press’s Write to Publish 2016.

Write to Publish is a writing conference that allows local Pacific Northwest authors to connect with local publishing professionals. It is also a fundraiser for Ooligan Press, which is the teaching press connected to Portland State University's book publishing graduate program. These events offer emerging writers information about the state of the publishing industry and advise them on how to navigate it successfully.

We'll be there talking about our books, what we look for, and how we got started in publishing. Hope to see you there! Be sure to keep checking our Events page for details!