Books for Babies® Newsletter

Family Literacy Day ~January 2003

Corner Brook
On January 27th, Books for Babies® held a Family Literacy Day event at the local Dominion store. Children could choose a book to take home with them from a number of titles including:
• award winning The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
• The Hat by Jan Brett
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• The Jacket I Wear in the Snow by Shirley Neitzel
• Animal's A to Z by David McPhail

Families who visited the Community Room were invited to stay to read with their children and to join in the cake-cutting at noon. Many parents took the opportunity to spend quality one-on-one time with their child.

In the afternoon, children were invited to story time at the public library.

Congratulations to all prize winners! Winners from Massey Drive, Corner Brook, Benoit's Cove, and Deer Lake received mugs, crayons, colouring books, story books, and Family Literacy Day
t-shirts.

Special Thanks to Corner Brook's Fairway Honda for donating books and to Dominion for providing space for us to host the event and for donating a delicious cake!

Upcoming Events

Chapter Certificates
The Provincial Advisory Committee is pleased to announce that they are issuing Certificates to acknowledge Chapters for their membership with Books for Babies® . A Chapter number will be on each certificate. This number corresponds to first two numbers on your invoice(s).

Handbook Launch
The new handbook was completed in October. To launch this special project, the Provincial Books for Babies® Advisory Committee will be hosting a reception for their partners and for the general public. The launch is expected to take place on June 12th at the College of the North Atlantic, Corner Brook campus at 4 pm. Please contact the Provincial Coordinator if you plan to attend.