Maple Shade Street Festival
September 11, 2010
Ryan, Nikki and Ava Mayer working our first Alphabetown event!! We had a great time and look forward to the next event on October 3rd at the Collingswood book festival on Main Street :)
We had a successful run at our first event, including raising over $100 for our first children's charity, "Alex's Lemonade Stand"! Three lucky winners won in our raffle. We gave away a cool Razor scooter with helmet, a V-tech build your own story electronic game and a third package consisting of a Leap Frog Fridge Talk, Mr. Bump medical kit and a Garanimals playset all of which were donated by Walmart in Cinnaminson. 100% of the raffle money was donated to the charity. Looking forward to more charity fun in Collingswood!
Collingswood Book Fair
October 2, 2010
Nicole and Ryan Mayer with Anthony Gargano of 610 WIP holding his copy of "Where Is Ziggy?"!!
Two survivor moms of children with childhood cancers raising money for Alex's Lemonade Stand! Great job ladies :)
Our first book signing experience!! So much fun....
Madison and Nicole Mayer hugging the "mouse" of the festival..
Ava Mayer and the "mouse"
WE SUPPORT......
Ava had a great time hanging out with Elmo and all of the great kids at the mall!!
Thank you to the KART Foundation and NHSC for inviting AlphabetownUSA to your awesome literary event!!
Trinity Church Book signing and sale
Sunday, November 14, 2010
courtesy of Trinity Preschool director, Nancy Whisonant (Church St. and Main St. Moorestown, NJ) 10am til 11am.
Author Reading with the KART Foundation and NHSC at Head Start Preschool, Delanco, NJ
Monday November 29, 2010
Author Reading with the KART Foundation and NHSC at Family Fun Daycare, Burlington, NJ
Friday December 3, 2010
Each child recieved a free activity CD as well as some books donated for their classrooms. The kids were very greatful and so were the teachers. Thank you for your donations!
Trinity Church Book signing and sale
Courtesy of Trinity Preschool director, Nancy Whisonant (Church St & Main, Moorestown, NJ)
Sunday December 12, 2010 10am - 11am.
Holiday Shopping in Medford by
Book Swap Cafe
Saturday, November 27, 2010 at 10:00am
560 Stokes Road, Medford, NJ
Our son Alex was an awesome "Ava" for the day!! Great job on a very cold day!!
Through AlphabetownUSA's "Book Donation Program" we were able to donate 215 books to underpriveleged preschool children. Thank you to our many generous donors from Alphabetown, the children and their families! The children had a great time as did we. Great experience!!
We dont have pics for this one, but another successful book signing. Thank you all for your support! It was great to hear from one happy customer that her grandchild carries our book around like a security blanket!! We love you too! Glad we could make you smile :)
We had free coffee to keep us warm and treats to eat thanks to Starbucks!!
Alex was a very friendly and hardworking "A" saying hi to passing traffic..lol!
Ronald McDonald House of Southern New Jersey, Camden
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
The authors' families (Ormsbys, Mayers and McHughs) were generous enough to get together and donate books that were signed with a personal message in each book. The authors hand delivered the books along with their 3 daughters. We were able to deliver enough books to give one for each child staying in the house ages 7 and under. We were not able to read to the children but had a quick tour of the downstairs! The house was decorated beautifully for the holidays!! Thank you for letting us be involved!
Thank you to the following families:
Ryan and Nicole Mayer & Family
Bob and Bobbie Hill
Lorraine Atkinson
Lori Bowker & Family
Garry and Donna Ormsby & Family
Susan & Gerry McHugh
Hannah and Madison Mayer write their own message to the families staying at the Ronald McDonald House while Nicole wraps them up with ribbons and candy canes.
Ava, Hannah and Madison Mayer posing with Ronald McDonald and their favorite book...."Where Is Ziggy?" of course!
A comfortable sitting room for guests and temporary residents to hang out and talk.
The Mayer girls pose in front of an extensive holiday town in the recroom after happily delivering their books... CHEESE!
Delivery of donated books made to the Dooley House of Camden, New Jersey by the crew at Merion Caterers in Cinnaminson on February 8, 2011. A special thank you to the following generous families:
Bill Diamantakos & Family
Cliff Miller & Family
Christos Thrappas & Family
The children represented by The Dooley House are forever grateful, especially because they have recently lost their state funding and have been moved to a shelter. The children of the Dooley House are deemed "medically fragile" and do not have their parents around. If you would like to make a financial donation to the Dooley House, call 856-541-1154.
March 2, 2011 Guest Author Appearance at the Octavius V. Catto Family School in Camden City, NJ
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Michelle Feldman, Librarian of Octavius V. Catto Family School, Camden gave us a wonderful, warm welcome when we arrived for Dr. Seuss' birthday! Thank you Michelle... and cute costume!!
Looks like we are movin' up in the world kids.. Ryan and I check out our "tech room"!
With our book on the "Big Screen" and the first group of 100 kids in place in the auditorium, Mrs. Feldman introduces us as "Very Famous Authors!" You are so sweet Michelle!!
It is time to perform!
We designated our duties.. Ryan warmed the kids up and I took over with reading the first two books of our series! They were great listeners and participated nicely during my reading! Great job guys!!.
Thank you for having us! We had a ton of fun reading to your awesome school of kids. We hope to see you next year!!
March 3, 2011 Guest Author Readings at the
Garfield Elementary School in Cinnaminson, NJ
We had a great time attending Read Across America Day with the Garfield Elementary School!! Everyone was very welcoming and receptive! We hope to see you again! Happy reading!
