Many children who visit the new Brandywine Center’s medical and dental offices are delightedly taking home hundreds of new and gently used children’s books from the McNeil Children’s Library. Each time a child visits the center’s offices, he or she may take home and keep a book.

The demand is so great that the Brandywine Health Foundation encourages you to donate such books to help the library re-stock its shelves. Donations are welcome during office hours at either the Brandywine Center, 744 E. Lincoln Highway, or the Brandywine Health Foundation at 50 South First Avenue, both in Coatesville, or check with your employer as they may be accepting book donations, too.

And now, just in time for the forthcoming holidays, we’re excited to announce the McNeil Children’s Library will be this year’s beneficiary of the annual holiday book drive sponsored by Barnes & Noble on Main Street in Exton, Pa.

Each year, the store chooses a non-profit literacy program in need of books to benefit from the drive. Beginning Nov. 1, books will be available for purchase on behalf of the McNeil Children’s Library. Bookplates will be available to personalize your gift, and the donated books can conveniently be left for the library in a collection box at the store’s cash-wrap desk.

Please join the Brandywine Health Foundation in giving deserving children the gift of reading and having a book to call their own.

Questions? Please contact Alexandra Sharber (volunteer coordinator from Freedom Village Retirement Community's Outreach Committee.) at 610.466.0248, alexandra.sharber@mybrookdale.com. Thank you!!