Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Waterside Shops in Naples is hosting its fifth annual Holiday Book Drive through December 31st benefiting K is for Kids Foundation.
Boxes brimming with beautiful new books for children in need are filling up fast thanks to the retailer’s employees and customers’ compassion to help. K is for Kids will be distributing the books to children who are economically needy throughout Collier County.
Behind the scenes, or rather, the check out counter:
Much of the enthusiasm for the Holiday Book Drive is being generated by one of the store’s newest employees and head cashiers, Janet (at left in the photo below), and veteran community relations assistant, Felicia (at right), who are keeping the busy retailer’s check out lines flowing smoothly during this busy season and helping customers to leave with a smile on their face. Thanks to these two impassioned individuals’ desire to help kids in need have new books to read for the New Year, they and their fellow team members have been ringing up the sales of children’s books which will undoubtedly draw even more smiles upon the faces of the children who receive them.
Barnes & Noble’s fifth annual Holiday Book Drive benefiting K is for Kids Foundation is enjoying great success. Pictured at left, Janet, one of the head cashiers at the Waterside Shops store, and Felicia, who is the long-serving community relations assistant, are the two merry makers behind the counter who are helping to rally enthusiasm for the book drive. “The customers have been so generous,” said Jessica Olson, the retailer’s community relations manager, “and we are thrilled to see how many beautiful new books will be placed in the hands of children who need them most.”