Bookmobile Program
Our Bookmobiles travel weekly from the Wai‘anae Coast to Kalihi-Palama and the surrounding areas of Honolulu to provide families with access to books, educational materials, and hopefully a life-long love of reading and learning. We visit afterschool programs, affordable housing developments, transitional housing, and shelters. Scheduled stops also include select Summer Fun sites.
Keiki and their ‘ohana are welcome to borrow books for free. While most of are reading materials are intended for keiki, our shelves include books for readers of all ages to enjoy. Bookmobile staff and volunteers also facilitate literacy-related activities to help improve phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.
Weekly Schedule
Wai‘anae Bookmobile
Monday
5:00-6:00 pm Kauiokalani 6:30-7:30 pm Pai‘olu Kaiaulu
Tuesday
2:30-3:15 pm Nanakuli Boys & Girls Club
3:30-4:00 pm Nanakuli Teen Center
4:30-5:30 pm Wai‘anae Boys & Girls Club
Friday
3:00-4:00 pm Ohana Ola o Kahumana 4:30-5:30 pm Waimaha/Sunflower
Honolulu-based Bookmobile
Tuesday
2:00-3:00 pm Kalani Gardens (Mililani) 3:45-4:45 pm Keahumoa Place (Ewa)
Wednesday
1:00-3:15 pm Safe Haven (Waipahu) 3:45-4:45 pm Villages of Moa’e Ku (Ewa)
Thursday
2:30-3:30 pm Kukui Gardens (Honolulu)
3:45-4:45 pm Kukui Tower (Honolulu)
LITERACY ACTIVITIES
Build your child's literacy skills through fun literacy activities focusing on phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.
A fun creative way for keiki to design/color their own Bookmobile following a short prompt to express their thoughts and feelings.
VOLUNTEER
Volunteers help conduct read alouds, literacy activities, and assessments. They also assist children and adults in checking out books, track reading log entries, and use the kindles. Currently, site visits are on weekday afternoons. We ask for a minimum commitment of one visit per week, for at least four months. A criminal background check is required.
Occasional volunteer opportunities at community outreach events are also available.
CONTACT BOOKMOBILE
Pua Burgess - Special Events & Keiki Tutoring Manager
E-mail: puaena.burgess@hawaiiliteracy.org
Tel: (808) 351-0033
The Bookmobile program is made possible with generous support from:
The Kazuo and Mary Yamane Family Foundation, The Harry & Nee Chang Wong Foundation, The James & Abigail Campbell Family Foundation, State of Hawaii Grant in Aid, Hawaiian Electric Company, The Clarence T.C. Ching Foundation, First Hawaiian Bank Foundation, the Friends of Hawai‘i Charities, Women’s Fund of Hawaii, The Lois Lenski Covey Foundation, the Thomas and Sumie McCabe Foundation, the Kosasa Foundation, Pizza Hut Literacy Fund, the Mamoru and Aiko Takitani Foundation, and the McInerny Foundation.