First Book Canada provides new books to children in need, addressing one of the most important factors affecting literacy–access to books. Would the children in your program/school benefit from ongoing access to high quality, new books from leading publishers?
Does your program serve at least 70% children from low income families?
First Book Canada, a registered charity that provides new books and educational resources to children from low income families, will hold our first ever free book distribution in Vancouver, British Columbia the week of January 30th, 2012, distributing more than 40,000 new books generously donated by Owl Kids Books.
First Book Canada works through existing community programs and literacy efforts already serving children in need; to qualify to receive new books from us, your program/school must serve at least 70% children from low income families.
Quick and Easy Registration
Registering is a quick and easy online process that takes only a few minutes, and can be accomplished directly on our website, www.firstbookcanada.org/receive-books
Once you’re registered, you’ll receive notification of our upcoming (and all future) book distributions, as well as information on how to request books. If you register with us by January 20th, 2012, you will be invited to submit a request for free books from the Vancouver, British Columbia book distribution.
As well, If your program serves at least 70% children from low income families, we encourage you to register with us so that you can take advantage of the First Book Canada Marketplace, which will be launching in early spring 2012. The Marketplace is an online store offering high quality children’s books and educational resources at deeply discounted prices to organizations serving children from low-income families.
About First Book
· First Book Canada was founded in 2008 and is the first international expansion of First Book, headquartered in Washington D.C.
- · Collectively, First Book has distributed more than 90 million free and low cost books to children in need across North America.
- · Once children receive brand new books from First Book Canada, their interest in reading nearly triples.
- · 99% of programs report they were able to build and strengthen their curricula as a result of working with First Book and First Book Canada.
About Literacy
- · More than nine million Canadian adults struggle with low literacy–First Book Canada helps address this problem at its root by providing new age and language appropriate books to children from low income families.
- · Research shows that when families participate in family literary intervention programs, full dependence on public assistance is reduced from 67% to 11%. (Literacy BC, In the National Center fro Family Literacy long term study with 2,000 families)
- · A recent study showed that while three quarters of high income households spent money on books, only one quarter of low income households bought books. (Hill Strategies Research, Who Buys Books)
Please feel free to refer to our website, www.firstbookcanada.org for more information, or contact Wayne Cochrane, Director of Operations at wcochrane@firstbook.org.
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