The Library Dream

Buy a book. Inspire a child.

Ayodeji’s dream is simple: for more children to have the chance to find, read and enjoy his stories.

Buy a Book, Inspire a Child library campaign
Phase 1

Taking Ayodeji’s books into libraries.

The first phase has focused on helping make Ayodeji’s Amazing Adventures available in public and community libraries across North America and Africa.

Libraries reached in Phase 1

  • Kitchener Public Library — Central Branch, downtown Kitchener
  • Brantford Public Library — St. Paul Branch
  • Charlottetown Library Learning Centre, PEI
  • Alliance Française Library, Lagos
  • Kenya National Library, Nairobi
  • McMillan Memorial Library, Nairobi
Ayodeji's Amazing Adventures at Kenya National Library, Nairobi

Kenya National Library, Nairobi

Ayodeji's Amazing Adventures at McMillan Memorial Library, Nairobi

McMillan Memorial Library, Nairobi

Ayodeji's Amazing Adventures at Alliance Française Library, Lagos

Alliance Française Library, Lagos

Ayodeji's Amazing Adventures at Brantford Public Library – St. Paul Branch

Brantford Public Library – St. Paul Branch

Ayodeji's Amazing Adventures at Charlottetown Library, PEI

Charlottetown Library, PEI

Kitchener, Ontario

Kitchener Public Library — Central Branch

Part of Phase 1 of the Library Dream.

How to support

Help put a story into another library.

The campaign invites supporters to choose how many libraries they would like to help stock and support the placement of multiple copies of the book.

$50 can help stock one library.

To support the Library Dream, send an Interac e-Transfer to:

Please use “Library Dream” in the transfer message so the support can be identified.

Why libraries?

A library copy can be discovered by many children over time. The goal is not only to place books on shelves, but to create more chances for children to read, imagine and see another young child creating stories of his own.