I would like to thank our community for the wonderful support we have received. This time it was through the N.C. Literary Festival hosted by the UNC Chapel Hill Libraries, which collected over 600 books. People who attended the festival were asked to bring a book to donate to the Book Fairy.

The Book Fairy runs "Karl's Books," a program that collects and provides children's books for the UNC Chapel Hill Pediatric Hematalogy/Oncology Department. The children treated in the clinic are invited to read the books in the clinic and take a book home when they leave.

In 2 1/2 years the program has become a huge success. Our son, Karl Humphries, would be so pleased to know other kids are being provided with this wonderful form of escape. Karl was treated at this clinic for three years for a brain stem tumor and died in March 2007 at the age of 13. We do this in his memory.

If you would like to supportour program, please send a tax deductible donation. Make checks payable to "Pediatric Hematology Oncology Fund" (Memo line: Book drive fund, Karl's Books). Mail it to The UNC-Chapel Hill, Departmentt of Pediatrics Division Hematology/Oncology, CB # 7236,

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7236.

A tax receipt will be mailed to you, so be sure to include your curren taddress.

Kathy Humphries

Book Fairy

Chapel Hill