Books for Babies Gets Quarter of Mil

Monday, November 10, 2008 10:35 AM

Prince George, B.C.- A $250,000 provincial grant to Books for BC Babies will promote the development of early literacy and learning skills among new babies and support new parents in learning about the important role they
play in their child's healthy development.

Created in 2004 and delivered in partnership with local libraries and community partners such as public health units and local hospitals, the community-based Books for BC Babies program aims to provide a carefully selected book, CD, and literacy package to the parents of each of the province's approximately 41,000 newborn babies each year.

The 2009 edition of the book will be a re-issue of the classic Mother Goose: A Canadian Sampler, which features popular nursery rhymes accompanied by illustrations from Canadian artists in a board-book format. The book is published by Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press and was originally released in 1994. Accompanying the book is a new CD by Kathy Reid-Naiman entitled Zoom Zoom Cuddle and Croon.

The province sees about 42,000 births per year, and the Books for BC Babies program, in partnership with local libraries and community partners, has a goal of getting a copy of the book, CD, and the literacy package that accompanies it to every new parent in the province.

For more information on Books for BC Babies, visit http://books4babies.bclibrary.ca.

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Posted by: lmorg on November 10 2008 10:53 AM

So now the province is telling moms and dads how to be parents and what to read to their kids. Seems like an effort fund some artists who couldn't sell their work otherwise. Besides, 250K for this and the Province won't donate 50K for a veterans tribute involving projecting images and names of fallen soldiers??

Posted by: BCRacer on November 10 2008 11:52 AM

Campbell and his cronies strikes again!
IMHO

Posted by: Andyfreeze on November 10 2008 12:41 PM

$166 thousand for "trails and $250 thousand for books?
Just a bit shy of half a million!
Obviously the B.C. government has more money than we thought.
Obviously no economic downturn in Victoria!

Posted by: Moses on November 10 2008 12:41 PM

Yeah. Why do we need books and litericy and stuff when we hav potholes everywhere and crackheads in evry doorway downtown and our gas costs more than it does in Vancouver and Campbell sold out BC Rail?

Posted by: He speaks on November 10 2008 3:10 PM

Moses, maybe we need books so that we do not have to just sell off our resources to the highest bidder. Maybe, we need to be more than just hewers of wood and miners. Maybe, with some good learnin' our children can be better than what we have become.

Education has always been the key to success. This is where it begins. We learn our kids to have open minds to understand the weaknesses and strength of others, so that the smart ones will rise to the top and take advantage of the dumb ones.

Hey, there always will be potholes. There never all going to be filled up. There only is so much asphalt in the world. In order to fill one, we have make another one else where to get the asphalt.

As far as the crack heads. Its only a phase, eventually those addicts will die off and there will be no problems.

Of course our gas cost more, its in the shipping..... what, I thought we got a inland port to solve this shipping cost.

BC Rail was sold, because it had two bad years in operations, so we gave it away for 999 years for a lousy billion dollars. May be our great grand childrens great great many times over children can have it back, when our planet has been stripped of all its resources and the only other life form is a hairless dog, scrounging around for some cockroaches.

So, anyone else feeling a bit cynical.

Posted by: Palopu on November 10 2008 6:04 PM

Babies should be fed milk and food. This Country is inundated with books, and certainly doesnt need the Government pushing there big nose's into the raising of babies.

You can send kids to pre kindergarten classes and kindergarten(which is a hidden form of Government Child care) but if you cannot get them to graduate, then you are wasting your time.

This is another example of Liberal/NDP crap.

Posted by: interceptor on November 10 2008 8:10 PM

So let me get this straight, according to the posters on Opinion 250
Money for trails - BAD
Money for police - BAD
Money for crime prevention - BAD
Money for any road that doesnt help them directly - BAD
Money for downtown - BAD
Money for our children - BAD

But dont worry, there will be 10,000 posts complaining about a pothole. So all programs should immediately be banned until we have perfect roads I guess?

Posted by: Oldun on November 10 2008 8:33 PM

Interceptor - please add one more to your list.

30% wage increase and gold pension for provincial politicians - BAD

Posted by: interceptor on November 10 2008 8:49 PM

snicker - fair enough :-)

Posted by: Andyfreeze on November 11 2008 3:40 PM

I don't think all those things that interceptor mentioned are really considered to be bad as such by most people.
And I don't think that is what people are actually saying.
What they ARE in fact saying is that they want the damn roads FIXED...but they don't get the roads fixed!
Why don't they just fix the damn roads?
And people have been asking for that for a long time,so why is no one listening?
Why is there money for everything else but not for roads and potholes?
Politicians on all levels have a nasty habit of marching to the little voices in their own heads, as opposed to actually LISTENING to those that elected them.
They also have a habit of thinking that those that elected them are stupid and just don't understand how it all works!
Well, people DO understand,and that is exactly why politicians have short careers.
So why don't they just FIX THE DAMN ROADS??