"We need diverse books so that someday all good “multicultural” stories can just be called good stories."
- author, Grace Lin
our reach since 2020
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ABOUT US
Made for Me Books is a Harlem-based nonprofit, run by volunteers. We've been working in the community since 2020 and since then have distributed 6,000+ books to 2,500+ young people.
Our mission is to make more culturally diverse books available to ALL of our young readers, with a primary focus on BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latino/a, Middle Eastern, et. al) stories and authors. These are the stories least represented and least available.
We do this work to help address a few things: -the lack of diversity in books people own -afforability (building a home library can be expensive) -reduce the impact of ongoing books bans
It is our hope that with more diversity in books, that all young people will see themselves reflected in the American story - while building more understanding across our beautiful differences.
We organize FREE BOOK FAIRS for our community: at block parties, in schools, with community groups and any organization that wants to help get more diverse books where they're needed - for all of our young readers.
Made for Me Books can work with you to provide a 2-3 hour BOOK FAIR, where we can provide books, read-alouds - and fun activities to engage with the stories.
We primarily work in Harlem, but will consider events in south Bronx and upper Manhattan; if we have the inventory.
get in touch
110th and Adam Clayton Powell, Harlem, New York, NY