Why do you only accept NEW books?

Kate’s Kart takes pride in providing popular, high-quality books as gifts to help lift the spirits of hurting children. We have lots of people ask us why donated books MUST be brand new.

There are three main reasons:

1. While preventing contamination completely is impossible, new books are far less likely to contain the very germs that we are trying to keep out of the hospitals.
2. For some children, the books they receive from Kate’s Kart are the only books they own. The gift of a brand new book reinforces to the child that he or she is special and deserving of a gift that no other child has owned.
3. With over 100 volunteers, and 25 hospitals, maintaining the same high-quality standards at each location requires some level of quality control. By requesting only new books, we can be assured that our minimum level of quality is being met.