Book Giving
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Free Book Fair: Fox Chapel Elementary School
Our last FREE book fair of the 2024/2025 school year was a HIT! Now, more than ever these inclusive book fairs are needed. Learning about different people and cultures builds empathy, which is something that is being stripped from children...
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Free Book Fair: East Silver Spring Elementary
Book joy is the best joy! Thank you for continuing to support our mission. Some take aways from our latest book fair:Every single teacher that came through complimented our book choices and were so happy that every child would be...
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Free Book Fair: Sargent Shriver Elementary
This was one of my all time favorite book fairs. It was held in the media center, which is always a beautiful location because I’m surrounded by books! As I stepped inside, I saw a beautiful welcome message on the...
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Free Book Fair: Arcola Elementary
We LOVE Arcola elementary. This is our 2nd time hosting a book fair there and it was amazing! Here are some key takeaways:Many of the kids figured out that I was the author of Kindness Is and asked me to...
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Free Book Fair: Harmony Hills Elementary
Our last book fair of 2024!!!The warmth I felt at this school today is something to celebrate. Everyone was willing to help!Key takeaways:Eyes That Kiss the Corners was by far the most popular picture book today. Kids from every grade...
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Free Book Fair: Burnt Mills Elementary
Kind Cotton recently moved to Maryland and Burnt Mills Elementary School was the recipient of 800 copies of I Promise, written by Lebron James. The school community was overwhelmed with gratitude and planned on handing out the books to all...
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Free Book Fair: Glen Haven Elementary
Our first book fair of the school year was this week and we are feeling incredibly grateful!!! Here are some beautiful takeaways from the event:One girl was looking for a book about cooking and I suggested Bilal Cooks Daal. She...
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Silver Spring Pride Book Donations
Our first time giving out books at a Pride event was a HUGE success. Children were so excited to see books that represented their family. We are firm believers that all children deserve to see themselves in the books that...
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First FREE Book Fair of the 2023/2024 school year
All thanks to your purchases! Each time we host a book fair I like to share some highlights. So here are my ones for today:One girl came up to me explaining that her dad told her to pick a book...
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Another free book fair!
We recently hosted another FREE book fair thanks to all of your continued support and purchases. The day was filled with happiness and gratitude. From the moment I walked through the doors and saw the beautifully decorated welcome Kind Cotton...
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Free Book Fair Recap
Another FREE Book Fair in the books (pun intended 😂) The local elementary school we visited intentionally requested a Kind Cotton free book fair because the week prior they held a school-wide book fair in which not all children could take a...
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200+ Books Donated to ALSO Youth !
A few weeks ago we heard about the amazing new space that ALSO Youth was creating in our former city of Bradenton, Florida and wanted to get involved. We were so excited to be able to connect with them, and they were just as excited...
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One School, One Book: George L. Cooke Elementary
We are kicking off 2023 right and by that we mean that we just received pictures from our first One School, One Book event from George L. Cooke Elementary School in Monticello, NY. Each child at the K-2 school received...
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Free Book Fair: Whetstone Elementary
This is the first in person Book Fair Kind Cotton has ever held! It has been a dream of ours for years to be able to host free book fairs for kids. Kaitlin had taught Kindergarten prior to focusing on...
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Our First Free Library with BLM Manasota
I haven’t watched a child read a book in person in 18 months aside from my daughter. A year and a half of no collective giggles during a read aloud. No gasps at the climax of one of our favorite...
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THANK YOU!! 6,399 Books through First Book!!!!
When we made the decision about a month ago to donate 5,000 books to First Book we also let you all know that any purchases in the month of April would help fund their mission of providing 8 million books...
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Kind Cotton Surprises Harmony Elementary School Students with 725 Books & Bags
Kind Cotton surprises Harmony Elementary School students with 725 books and bags Clothing brand based in Florida, Kind Cotton, celebrated the holidays today by providing a book and custom bag to each child at Harmony Elementary. Monroe, GA: Harmony...
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Kind Cotton Provides 450 Books to Stories Creek Elementary
We partnered with Stories Creek Elementary in Roxboro, North Carolina to celebrate their school-wide kindness day in a HUGE way! Each child received a copy of The Cool Bean to take home with them! We have various "one school, one book"...
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Kind Cotton surprises Harmony Elementary School students with 700 books and blankets
Lifestyle clothing brand with a mission of providing books to children celebrated the start of the winter holidays today by providing a book and blanket to each child at Harmony Elementary. Monroe, GA: Harmony elementary students had a surprise this...
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800 books & PPE provided to Killeen, TX Elementary School for World Kindness Day
For Release: November 13th, 2020 800 books & PPE provided to Killeen, TX Elementary School for World Kindness Day Women’s clothing startup, Kind Cotton, celebrated World Kindness Day today by providing a book to each child at Joseph A. Fowler...
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Books and Masks for Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
I thought I knew love prior to being a mom. Quite frankly there was a time Kev and I discussed not having children and if that is who you are and how you feel, those feelings are valid. Now that...
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Kind Cotton Reading Program Vlog Vol. 4: March 2020
After two long months, we made our way back to Alta Vista Elementary School for our reading program. I was greeted with hugs and cheers as I entered and the fun did not stop there! After catching up with the...
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Kind Cotton Reading Program Vlog Vol. 3: December 2019
Here’s a look back on our December reading program trip to Alta Vista. We had so much fun reading The Gingerbread Kid Goes to School and making our very own gingerbread kids!!! The best part was that, because of you...
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Kind Cotton Reading Program Vlog Vol. 2: October 2019
Hey guys! Here's a behind-the-scenes look at our trip to Alta Vista Elementary for our Reading Program in October. We had an awesome time with the kiddos: reading Spookley the Square Pumpkin, creating our own Spookley's, and giving each child...
