Support the bookshop that speaks your language

LOST IN BOOKS is the kids’ bookshop that speaks your language. We work to celebrate the power of speaking more than one language, and we need your help.

Since our establishment in 2017, we have worked towards the enrichment of Australian communities through multilingualism, storytelling, and creative self-expression. We encourage learning, language acquisition and creativity. These opportunities, among many others, also help to amplify the distinctive voice of Western Sydney’s artists and communities.

By paying it forward, you can actively contribute to both the LOST IN BOOKS family as well as a family in need. Alongside this, money raised also goes toward locally relevant community programs designed to nurture the growth of our local artists. 

• $25 lets a newly arrived child or family choose a book from our beautiful bilingual collection to help them learn English, or to strengthen literacy in the language(s) they speak at home.

• $50 lets a family choose a collection of books

• $75 funds a place for a child in a homework club, baby music time or conversation group for a term to help them connect with the community and adjust to their new way of life.

• $100 gives a young person the opportunity to make art and gain skills in one of our artist-led workshops over a term, to enable them to develop their creative portfolio, and employable skills.

• $250 pays for an open mic/performance night providing local musicians and artists with a safe place to gather and celebrate multilingual creativity.

• $500 provides a year of language learning for a student who speaks their mother tongue, but cannot write it. We offer a language writing academy to promote literacy and lyrical self expression in Arabic; and in Mandarin.

• $750 funds a print run of 200 copies of a multilingual anthology or new literary work 

• $1,000 allows us to run our online bookshop for another week; developing, producing and delivering our creative programs in-store and online.

To learn more about how we use the gift of literature, language and the arts to support families, whatever language they speak, visit us at www.lostinbooks.com.au

Other ways to donate

Call us on  (02) 9727 3928 or email us hello@lostinbooks.com.au to speak to one of our team.

BUY A GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING

LOST IN BOOKS is a community made up of talented multilingual artists from diverse cultural backgrounds. Support our creative community by purchasing gifts made by our local artists. All profits gets reinvested back into our creative programs supporting artists.