In its first year as a nonprofit, BookSmiles has given away more than 400,000 books to teachers, classrooms and school districts in need. BookSmiles founder Larry Abrams calls it "irrigating the book deserts" around the Philadelphia area.
from /r/books
在成爲非營利組織的第一年，BookSmiles已經向有需要的教師、教室和學區贈送了超過40萬冊圖書。BookSmiles的創始人拉里-艾布拉姆斯稱其爲 "灌溉費城地區的圖書沙漠"。