Alphabet Soup Children's Books

Project Cool for School – 
Books for Homeless Children

Project Cool is an awesome program of the Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness. They fill 1,300 backpacks with donated school supplies, books, toothbrushes & toothpaste and more and distribute them to children who are homeless.

Alphabet Soup will be collecting books for donation to Project Cool for School. Purchase a book for donation to Project Cool for School and get 25% off your entire purchase! * We’ll also be collecting books for donation that are on the wish list.

For more information on their program & how to donate and volunteer, check out their Facebook page

* May not be combined with any other discount or sale.

Here is a wish list of suggested titles and approximate age groupings. The list is meant as a guide to get you browsing. Follow your instinct in choosing a book – if it is a book you would share with a child in your life, then it is a great book to donate to the Cool for School Project!

Here are some suggestions to get you started:

Learning How to Read & New Readers

“I Can Read” books

Berenstain Bears

Cat in the Hat / Cat in the Hat Comes Back

Caps for Sale

Frog and Toad

Amelia Bedelia

Danny and the Dinosaur

Elephant and Piggie

Go Dog Go

Nate the Great

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

Young Readers – Picture Books

Angelina Ballerina

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Detective LaRue

Diary of a Spider

George and Martha

Giant Jam Sandwich

Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science Books

Little Critter

Martha Speaks

Roxaboxen

Tar Beach

Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig

Tacky the Penguin

Toot and Puddle

Trickster Tales by Gerald McDermott

Young Readers – Chapter Books

A to Z Mysteries

Boxcar Children

Classic Starts

Flat Stanley

Geronimo Stilton

Horse Diaries

The Hundred Dreses

Ivy and Bean

Judy Moody

Magic Tree House

Mercy Watson

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle

My Father’s Dragon

Paddington Bear

Pippi Longstocking

Older Readers

Afternoon of the Elves

American Girl Mysteries

Because of Winn-Dixie

BFG

Black Beauty

Borrowers

Charlotte’s Web

Cricket in Times Sqaure

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Encyclopedia Brown

Eyewitness Books (Nonfiction Series)

Ginger Pye 

Gone-Away Lake

Harriet the Spy

Harry Potter

James and the Giant Peach

Little House on the Prairie

Penderwicks

Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Lightning Thief, etc)

Peter and the Starcatchers

Phantom Tollbooth

Taran Wanderer (and other Lloyd Alexander Books)

Warriors

Wizard of Oz