You can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can judge a bookseller by their motive.
Hoppers Crossing Apex Club is holding a mega-book sale this Saturday to help the poor.
Members have collected tens of thousands of books to help 500 schools in the poverty- stricken Solomon Islands, according to Apex spokesman Adrian Walker.
They will send educational and children’s books to the South Pacific nation, but other donated books will be sold for $2 or less to cover shipping costs of $7000.
Hoppers Crossing resident and librarian Tania Barry organised the Schools Without Books project after learning school libraries in the Solomon Islands are little more than “empty broom cupboards”. “Books over there cost about $100 each, so instead of sending money, we send books,” Ms Barry said.
Each shipping container is filled with at least 30,000 educational books aimed at readers under 14. Ms Barry recently enlisted the Hoppers Crossing Apex Club to cover shipping costs by selling remaining books.
The book sale is from 9am-4pm at Mossfiel Hall in Hoppers Crossing.
