InsideOut Wish List

Dear friends,

We hope you will consider making a gift to InsideOut!

Your purchases will allow us to fill our student writing centers and classrooms with books that spark the imaginations of young people as they put pens to paper and find the magic in their own voice.

To engage our students, (many of whom do not have art classes or art teachers in their school) we bring artistic, hands-on projects to spark students’ creativity and writing. Student collages, paintings, pencil drawings, photographs and ceramic sculptures have been featured in our publications alongside the poems these works of art have inspired.

Consider making an extra purchase of writing materials or art supplies for students in the InsideOut program. All items will be used directly with the students as they explore the power and beauty of language all year long.

Thank you from all of us on behalf of the children served.

Supplies, Supplies, Supplies

  • Notebooks
  • Pocket folders
  • Disposable cameras
  • Watercolor sets
  • Washable markers
  • Colored pencils
  • Colored chalk
  • Glue sticks
  • Pocket thesauruses and dictionaries
  • Manila drawing pads, large
  • Art postcards (large variety of styles)
  • Construction paper
  • Magazines (for collages)
  • Child-size scissors

A Few Games Too

  • Balderdash
  • Taboo
  • Apples to Apples
  • Scategories
  • Legos for use in Lego poetry

From Here to There

DOT bus cards

Books

Gift cards from establishments that sell children and young adult books or supplies on our list are welcome as well.

Some local independent bookstores that specialize in children’s and young adult books that we recommend are:

The Book Beat, 26010 Greenfield Rd., Oak Park, (248) 968-1190

For Top Ten lists of Young Adult Books for teens as well as lists of Caldecott Medal award-winning picture books, Newbery Awardees for outstanding fiction for young people, and winners of the Coretta Scott King Book Award, please visit and search the website of the American Library Association. http://www.ala.org.

For excellent magazines for children consider a subscription to any of the titles listed under http://www.CricketMag.com or http://www.stonesoup.com which publishes children under the age of thirteen.

Jimmy Santiago Baca will be coming to town to visit some InsideOut high-school classrooms that have read his essays. He will also be the key-note speaker at an InsideOut youth writing conference in early May. We need lots more copies of his essays, Stories from the Edge so that students can each receive a copy at the event. Please consider purchasing a copy or two while they are on sale!

We thank you for your support of InsideOut!