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A kids’ bookshop that speaks your language

LOST IN BOOKS is a multilingual kids’ bookshop.

LOST IN BOOKS’ Purpose

LOST IN BOOKS was established in 2017 by Think+DO Tank Foundation to:

  1. maintain and transmit mother language(s)

  2. enable curiosity about other language worlds

  3. share and produce stories that reflect the full polyglot diversity of Australian society

  4. celebrate Australian multilingualism, and

  5. enable multilingual literacies of children and youth so that they can be fully-fledged citizens and participants in both English and their mother tongue.


LOST IN BOOKS Impact

Since 2017, LOST IN BOOKS has:

  • created a new safer public space for women, children and youth in South Western Sydney

  • established a new public creative hub and community house

  • enabled access to high-quality multilingual kids’ literature for at least 76,404 students in 110 schools throughout Australia

  • directly employed at least 39 local women with a refugee experience as Retail Assistants; Community Connectors; Site Managers; Interpreters; Bilingual Storytellers; Interpreters; Cleaning Staff; Hosts; and Program Assistants

  • funded residencies and artist development programs for 27 literary artists to make new bilingual works; 24 Storytellers to develop new bilingual material for live storytelling; and 8 musicians to make multilingual music

  • contributed to the payment of more than 224 artists across festivals, creative and public programming and schools outreach

  • contributed to the cost of operating Think+DO Tank’s Community House and its outreach work, TO YOUR DOOR

  • produced a digital TV channel, LOST IN BOOKS TV, that has generated more than 16,700 views of more than 430 hours of original, multilingual content since 2020

  • attracted more than 16,000 attendances in creative programming

  • provided 1900+ instances of direct assistance, including COVID assistance through the work of our Community Connectors, including our online Community Hub during the COVID crisis

  • referred more than 50 individuals with complex needs to relevant services.

LOST IN BOOKS is a social enterprise, a “business for good”.


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Lost In Books acknowledges that we meet and work on the traditional lands of the Cabrogal clan of the Darug nation and pay our respect to Elders both past and present.

 

 
 
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LOST IN BOOKS is the brainchild of Jane Stratton and her team at THINK+DO Tank Foundation.

Generously supported by: