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Two-year-old Blake Augburn holds a book at Smart from the Start, an early-learning center in Southeast D.C. FROM THE EDITOR LOGAN WERLINGER Cranking Up the Volumes Back in 1992, when friends Kyle Zimmer, JD ’87, Elizabeth Arky, JD ’86, and Peter Gold started the nonprofit First Book, they handed out 12,000 books, which is pretty tremendous. That was 24 years ago. As Julyssa Lopez reports in this issue, First Book now distributes 15 million free and low-cost books each year, a number that over time has added up to 140 million books. “Millions” has lost a bit of grandiosity over time; it’s muddy turf, being both a somewhat household term and still almost unimaginably vast. So let’s put this into perspective: Onehundred-and-forty million copies of The Cat in the Hat laid end to end lengthwise—the hardback copy in my home, anyway— would span the 2-mile trek between the Lincoln Memorial and the U.S. Capitol more than 10,000 times. Standing atop one another, they would climb to the International Space Station and back again 40 times. Or, packed and shipped, they would be nearly enough to put two books into the hands of every person 18 years or younger in the U.S. The volume is staggering, but so is the implication: The unmet need is that deep. And perhaps the most compelling thing First Book does has little to do with volume; it has to do with content. It’s a massive effort that diffuses into many more hundreds of millions of microscopic impacts that could remake the surfaces on which a generation will build its creativity, its confidence and its awareness of self and others. Danny Freedman, BA ’01 managing Editor @TheGWMagazine gwmagazine.com / 3
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