PJ LIBRARY BOOKS PROFESSIONAL
This program helps to engage parents in conversations about Jewish values through reading and also provides library books, related resource guides, and professional development to our children’s educators. The program is underwritten by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation and is dedicated to enhancing the content of the Jewish classroom for grades K through 3. Greater Hartford Jewish schools have been specially selected to participate in PJ Library’s pilot program, PJ Goes to School. To learn more or to sign up for PJ Library, please contact Jane Pasternak. We also invite you to visit the PJ Library website and "like" PJ Library of Greater Hartford on Facebook. PJ Library shares Jewish stories that can help your family talk together about values and traditions that are important to you. We know that something magical happens when parents sit down together to read with their children. The books are a gift from the Harold Grinspoon Foundation and are funded locally by Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford's Lions of Judah and by the Jewish Community Foundation advised by the Zachs Family.įamilies with children ages 6 months through 8 years old who have Judaism as part of their lives are welcome to sign up – regardless of their Jewish background, knowledge, or observance. PJ Library of Greater Hartford is facilitated by the Mandell Jewish Community Center.
PJ LIBRARY BOOKS FREE
It is our pleasure to partner with PJ Library by sending these wonderful books to children all over the country every month.PJ Library sends free Jewish children's books and music to families across the world every month. It's a lot of physical labor done by very hardworking people. “When you open your mailbox, you don't think about what it takes to get that mail. “Mail is complex,” says Heather Strange, manager of business services at Andrews. A well-orchestrated crew addresses and stuffs the envelopes and prepares them for shipment.
Once the books are ready for their children, they leave the PJ Library warehouse and stop by Andrews, a nearby direct-mail and marketing company.
PJ LIBRARY BOOKS FULL
This team represents the full journey of a book: from publisher to PJ Library family. This is the village Renée is referring to: (from left to right, clockwise) Brian Buerkle, publisher relations manager Adrianne Levine, director of data management Doug Zborowski, warehouse support representative Renée Zborowski, operations manager Suzanne Pilet, marketing and operations coordinator and Alicia Asarese, operations associate.
Each pallet, strategically placed by warehouse support representative Doug Zborowski (yes, that's Renée's husband) is inventoried and labeled. On any given day, there are approximately 1 million board books, picture books, and chapter books waiting to be shipped out. Follow along and see how the books go from the PJ Library warehouse to the houses of PJ Library families.īefore PJ Library books find their homes, they live at the organization's 14,000-square-foot warehouse. This is where Renée and her team's careful planning comes in handy. Quite a journey, right? It's not even close to over. After the picture book was written in Illinois by Michael Herman, illustrated by Sharon Harmer in England, published by Kar-Ben Publishing in Minnesota, and printed in China, a tractor trailer from a port in New York City delivered 31,248 copies to the PJ Library warehouse in Connecticut.
Take, for instance, the September delivery of The Cholent Brigade, the January book for 5-year-olds. Renée handles about 3 million of those books from the US, and programs in countries such as Israel, Russia, and Brazil manage the rest. While Renée and the global operations team make the complicated process seem simple, there is a lot of careful planning that goes into delivering upward of 6 million books yearly to homes, schools, and organizations in more than 35 countries. “And what's awesome is it's feel-good work.” It really “takes a village,” says Renée Zborowski, operations manager at PJ Library. It takes multiple spreadsheets, tractor trailers, forklifts, and a philanthropic vision to complete the mammoth task of getting almost 670,000 PJ Library books a month into the hands of Jewish children around the world. This story appeared in the December 2022 issue of PROOF, a PJ Library magazine. Here's a behind-the-scenes peek at how it gets to their home for storytime. Every month, children experience the excitement of a new story.
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