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Book Harvest’s 5th Annual Summer Block Party welcomed more than 3,000 attendees!

2025 Summer Block Party: Know Before You Go We are just days away from the best part of the summer— Book Harvest’s 5th annual Block Party!...

Media Advisory: Block Party 2025 Book Harvest’s 5th annual Summer Block Party is a free community-wide event celebrating summer and books. The afternoon will include family activities and entertainment, highlighted by an abundance of brand-new free children’s books for every child—from infants to high schoolers—to take home and keep forever (there will be 11,000 brand new books this year!)

I had the chance to join some of my favorite Book Harvest teammates on a field trip to Greensboro, where we toured Replacements, Ltd. and learned more about one of their most meaningful initiatives: Bob’s Closet.

This summer, our intern Elliot is diving into all the ways Book Harvest brings literacy to life—and in this vlog, she's hitting the trail with Phoebe Craft, our Community Engagement Coordinator, to explore one of our most beloved community experiences: the StoryWalk®

Our July 2025 newsletter

Frida Daniels, Senior Book Babies Coordinator, and George Hendrix, Early Literacy Assistant, highlight a very special graduation ceremony that recalls the endurance of families with young children during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Our June 2025 newsletter

Last week, I had the absolute privilege of joining Book Harvest’s June Neese on a journey to four eastern North Carolina towns to deliver box after box of children’s books to eager county workers.