The Story Store Trust

Every child deserves excellent school library books - but not every school can fill their library with books that children want to read. That's where Story Store Te Manu Māutauranga comes in.

Story Store is a registered charitable trust, which acquires excellent condition donated second-hand children's books, and makes them available, for free, to school libraries that are under-resourced.

Story Store is the brainchild of Joanna Baynes, a school librarian with 35 years' expertise - her knowledge of children's books, and what children love to read is second to none.

At our welcoming and organised space in Onehunga, Auckland, our shelves are stocked with over 5,000 fabulous children's books that were all donated to us by children, families/whānau and school communities who gave Story Store the books they loved reading but no longer wished to keep.

The Story Store team has seen such joy on the faces of school library staff who visit us, when they find a book that is expensive, out of print, or which a child has specifically requested. Children have written to thank us for giving their library a particular book they had waited a long time to enjoy.

Your donation will help Story Store meet its operating costs, purchase library-specific equipment, and keep growing!

By donating to Story Store, you will have a direct positive impact on a child's enjoyment of reading, for pleasure, in their school library.

Ngā mihi nui.