Book Swap at Holly Hill is Open

The Book Swap at Holly Hill in Greenwich is open on Friday and Saturday mornings from 8am - noon. Please feel free to drop by with books, or just to browse our free library. If you cannot donate books during our open hours you can drop books in the Discover Books bins.

Along with servicing the local community, we also provide gently used books to homeless shelters, senior centers, food banks, community organizations and needy schools in Fairfield County. Pre-pandemic we were re-distributing close to 40,000 books a year and we look forward to ramping back up.

If you have great books to donate, please stop by. If you are aware of a group in need, please ask them to contact us.

We got some great press on our reopening from Greenwich Free Press and Greenwich Time

The Book Swap is Open

The Book Swap at Holly Hill in Greenwich is now open on Friday and Saturday mornings from 8am - noon. Along with servicing the local community, we also provide gently used books to homeless shelters, senior centers, food banks, community organizations and needy schools in Fairfield County. Pre-pandemic we were re-distributing close to 40,000 books a year and we look forward to ramping back up.

If you have great books to donate, please stop by. If you are aware of a group in need, please ask them to contact us.

We got some great press on our reopening from Greenwich Free Press and Greenwich Time

Book Swap is Getting a Face Lift in anticipation of reopening!

We’ve got a new roof, paved road and a spanking new paint job. We’ll be filling the shed with books over the next week and hope to open Saturday July 10th.

Greenwich Book Swap Update

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3/25/2021: We are filling all 3 bins each week. Thanks so much for all the beautiful kids books which have been going to local food banks, schools and community organizations. We are filling the Tod’s Point bookcase near the main concession stand each week. No plans yet to reopen, but we are eternally hopeful!

12/2/2020: The bins are still available for donations and fill up each week. Pick ups are on Tuesdays, so if they are full please come back another day as we hate to have the books get wet if they are left outside. I am also trying to keep the adult book shelves stocked at Tod’s Point behind the second refreshment stand.

9/9/2020: The bins have been so successful that we have added a third this week

Bob Bishop, one of our favorite volunteers, tries out the new bin

8/15/2020: Although we don’t expect to reopen the Book Swap at Holly Hill for some time, we have placed two donation bins in front of the shed. One is for children’s books that we redistribute to local needy organizations. The other bin for adult books goes to Discover Books in Rhode Island who try to resell, redistribute or recycle them.

I am still accepting children’s books at my home at 40 Center Drive in OG if that is more convenient.

Many thanks for the donations!

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During the pandemic we have been accepting gently used children’s books and providing them to schools, free lunch pick up sites and community organizations throughout Fairfield County. Thanks so much to those who have cleared out their kid’s old bookcases and to those who are running book drives for us. We will continue to deliver books this summer, so please contact us if you know of an organization in need.

Book Swapping during the Pandemic

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Love to give books to kids

The Book Swap at Holly Hill will be closed during the coronavirus outbreak

Due to the coronavirus we will be temporarily closing the Book Swap at Holly Hill.

We typically have 250 guests a day on Friday and Saturdays and the book shed gets very crowded. This is usually a wonderful thing, but we feel it is important to follow the town’s lead in showing an abundance of caution. Since so many of our beloved patrons are senior citizens, we plan to keep it closed until the town’s Senior Center has determined that the threat has passed and they have reopened their doors.

Six to Six has a great sharing bookcase for parents

High Horizons had a Literacy Night

Wimpy Kid is still a favorite at Read

Edison School shares their Reading Resource room materials all over town

Thanks so much to The Boys and Girls Club!

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Doug Francefort

We are very sad to announce the passing of Doug Francefort, the 91 year old founder of the Greenwich Book Swap at Holly Hill. He dedicated his life to volunteerism at a wide range of institutions and was an inspiration to us all.

Holly Hill Book swap will be closed the week between Christmas and New Years

Happy Holidays to everyone from the volunteers at the Book Swap at Holly Hill in Greenwich

Bridgeport's Toys for Tots delivery

So thrilled that Sally Saunders was able to lend a hand (and SUV) to deliver our 2,600 books for the Bridgeport Toys for Tots event. Julio Reinoso and Joanne Ambrose were on hand to help us unload the 47 boxes of kid's books at Greater Bridgeport Christian Fellowship.

So excited that they will all get new homes on Friday and Saturday this week

Thanks to Family Centers

A huge Holiday shout out goes to our new friends at Family Centers in Greenwich who gave us 1,000 kids books for the Bridgeport Toys for Tots event. These were part of a huge kids book drive hosted by Houlihan Lawrence in Armonk. Thanks so much to all of you!

Many thanks to Henry Morris!

We want to give a big shout out to Henry Morris, a second hand bookseller who culls out all the good children’s books for us so we can distribute them to schools and shelters.

Love the way the books keep coming in when we need them

Our final delivery this week was to Kamara Moodie at St Raphael Academy in Bridgeport. At the same time that we were dropping off the last of our current inventory there, I got an email from our good friend Cheryl Capitani, Children's Librarian at New Canaan Library to say that she had 13 boxes of kids books for us. It's truly wonderful how this works out!