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How Sharing Books with Children Became One Man’s Mission

Posted on March 24, 2025October 1, 2025by Adeline McDonald
A close up of Rowan University supervisor certificate grad Larry Abrams taking a book off a bookshelf.

Founder of nonprofit BookSmiles has shared over 2 million books with local children Larry Abrams graduated from the College of Education’s Supervisor program in 2008, and has since gone on to found a remarkable nonprofit, BookSmiles. Here, he shares the story of how it came to be , how his experience at Rowan influenced him, […]

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