The Book Stork
Books for Babies®
Newsletter
Spring 2005
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 Where did the months go?
Editorial: Books for
Babies® has been busy since
our last issue of The Book
Stork. We actually ran out
of tote bags in late
February - thanks for your
orders! As Mill Lane
produces our new supply of
2,000 bags, donations from
3M Canada and RBC
Financial Group will cover
60% of the full package
cost. CIBC donated $1,000
towards the purchase of the
Year 1 book, "Goodnight
Moon" - also a big help.
New books now include a
rattle board book, and new
as well as old-favourites
for the birthday year books.
(see book list below)
Funding proposals have
been submitted to: Early
Childhood Development
(NL Department of
Education) for the
provincial coordination of our
program, to NLS for the "first
ever" BfB/family literacy
conference in May 2006 in
Corner Brook, and to Social
Development Canada (SDC) -
Understanding Early Years
Initiative for the production of
BfB materials in Inuktitut. My
thanks to all of you who wrote
Letters of Support or provided
feedback and encouragement.
Our party at the Chapters
Indigo bookstore on
Kenmount Road in St. John's
on November 13th generated
close to $5,000 in sales. 10%
was donated to our program.
Welcome to new Books for
Babies® chapters
- the Buchans Lionettes, Gander Military
Family Resource Centre, and
the Branch Recreation
Committee - Cape Shore
region.
BfB community connections
now include the Applied
Research Unit (MUN-SWGC),
the Community Education
Network (Bay St. George
Region), Safe Kids Canada , the
Labrador Institute- MUN and
the Labrador Inuit Association.
(www.nald.ca/booksforbabies/partners.htm)
Announcing our new Photo
Gallery on the BfB website -
photos from BfB community
events province-wide!
www.nald.ca/booksforbabies/photos.htm
(Tina Stewart, Provincial
Coordinator)
How we have grown! It's not
just the babies who are growing!
The Books for Babies® program had 19 partner
sites (chapters) in October 2003. We
now reach families in more than
1,000 communities through 40
community and regional
program sites province-wide.
1000 copies of the
Fall 2004 issue of The Book Stork were distributed to Books
for Babies® program sites, volunteers, libraries, family resource centres,
MPs, MHAs,
literacy councils, government departments, school boards, sponsors
and resource
partners. 1000 copies of Spring 2005 are here and Fall 2005 is yet
to come!
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