🧡 📚 Support High Five Books!

Our sweet shop turns seven this fall! If you love what we do here at our joyful, affirming, inclusive bookstore for all readers, will your family or business please help us sustain our free programming?

Perhaps you didn't know that since 2019, we ...

  • 😷 Survived a global pandemic mere months after opening(!).
  • 🎟️ Produce more than 150 free events each year for young readers and their caretakers, including four monthly book clubs and twice-weekly baby groups & storytimes.
  • 🏫 Assist educators and nonprofits across New England with curating book collections that reflect their diverse, deserving communities.
  • 💸 Have given away tens of thousands in book and merchandise donations to local schools, organizations, and community groups.
  • ✍🏼 Have hosted and uplifted hundreds of authors, illustrators, and kidlit luminaries in pursuit of our mission:
    To joyfully connect kids, families, and educators with awesome and inclusive books that represent the world around them—and the world that just might be.

But: This continued economic downturn is thwarting our efforts to provide book joy for all families, at as little cost possible.

And we're just not ready to give up.

If you're moved by what we do, will you please support us this season? 

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Give us a High Five!
Give us a High Five!
If you're moved by what we do here at our inclusive family bookstore, will you please give our team a high five? It will sustain us as we enter our *seventh* year in this beloved community!
Price:From $5.00
Sponsor a Staff Treat
Sponsor a Staff Treat
Sponsoring a staff meal or outing sustains the people who make the magic of High Five Books. Thank you for considering helping us reflect, learn, and grow together as a team!
Price:From $50.00
Sponsor Baby Group & Storytime
Sponsor Baby Group & Storytime
Every Friday and Saturday before our store opens, caretakers of all ages, genders, and roles gather to be in gentle, joyful, FREE community. Can you help us keep baby group & storytime going?
Price:From $150.00
Sponsor Affirmations Book Club
Sponsor Affirmations Book Club
Sponsor Affirmations Book Club
Our team hosts *two* free monthly book clubs for trans, nonbinary, & gender-creative kids and tweens/ teens. Sponsor a club, and we'll make a donation to our nonprofit partner Translate Gender!
Price:From $175.00
Sponsor a Visiting Author / Illustrator
Sponsor a Visiting Author / Illustrator
We want to help your reader meet their literary heroes! Help us cover the costs of bringing an out-of-town author or illustrator to Northampton.
Price:From $1,000.00

⭐️ FREE Ways to Support High Five!

Tell a Friend About Us!

Know someone who'll love our joyful, affirming, inclusive shop? Send them a link to our site!
It REALLY helps other readers find (and trust!) our shop.
We send a note about all our events & new book releases about once a week. Let us delight your inbox!
We're on Facebook and Instagram (but we won't share your kid there). Like and repost our content to get more eyeballs on our store.
If you're posting on social media about books you've bought through us, tag High Five Books. (It helps!)

📖 Other Ways to Support High Five!

In-Store Shopping

Come browse our adorable Florence, MA, store & studio, Mon-Sat, 10am-6pm.

Buy Online, Pick Up in Store

Place online orders until 5:30pm, then pick up in store by 6pm. No order amount minimum.

Local Delivery

$25 minimum order for free delivery available within 48 hours, up to 10 miles from our store.
We'll ship any in-stock books direct from our store. Want more choices? Try our Bookshop.org page and select from thousands!
Browse & buy on Bookshop.org, then read right in your web browser, or download an app for the full reading experience.
We are proud to partner with Libro.fm to give you a great audiobook experience.
Order a physical OR digital gift card, either online or in person.
However you best communicate, we want to hear from you: (413) 200-0197 or hello@highfivebooks.org