Books-for-All (formerly Adopt-A-Book) Program for all our precious children

Once again, the BookLady's Adopt-a-Book program is working with the S.A.F.E. house, specifically the Children Who Witness Abuse program, to help brighten the days and enrich the lives of some of our most vulnerable children. A carefully chosen selection of books is ready to be ordered… and all we need now is your support. Please take a moment to consider what you can do to help.

A selection of Usborne books has been chosen for the children, and so now it's up to individuals and businesses to “Adopt-a-Book” (or several). For every dollar collected about $1.40 goes towards this worthy project. More information can be found at www.BookLady.ca/ForTheKids

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Thank you to all who give generously to the various literacy/fundraising campaigns sponsored by the BookLady... promoting the gift of reading in our homes, in our communities and around the world!

Recent BookLady projects:

• May 2012
  Close to 100 high interest/low vocabulary books donated the Literacy Alliance of the Shuswap Society, following a very successful sample sale.
  
  
• January 2012
  We are proud to continue our partnership with the Literacy Alliance of the Shuswap Society to ensure every baby born in the Shuswap Lake General Hospital will go home with their very own board book.
  
  
• November 2011
  This Christmas, as in many Christmas' past (since 2004), we collected corporate and individual pledges towards book donations to the S.A.F.E. Society and the Children Who Witness Abuse program Delivery made to the SAFE Society December 5! So many books to delight children at risk in our community.
  
  
• Autumn 2011 In partnership with Dakshina Yoga Studio and Literacy Alliance of the Shuswap Society more than $1,100 of books will be enjoyed by families in our community through some of the various programs offered by the Shuswap Family Resource Center
  
  
• January 2011
  We are proud to partner with the Literacy Alliance of the Shuswap Society to launch a "Books for Babies" program. Every baby born in the Shuswap Lake General Hospital will go home with their very own Usborne touchy-feely Book.
  
  
• November 2010 More than $1,300+ in books to the S.A.F.E. Society and the Children Who Witness Abuse program
  
  
• October 2010
  Two large boxes of gently used Usborne books are on their way to Mumbai, India via "Let It Be" L.I.B. International and the Wockhardt Foundation.
  
  
• August 2010
  More than $700 books donated to the Shuswap Family Resource Center and the F.O.R.C.E. a non-profit society supporting, educating and advocating on behalf of families of children with mental health challenges.

Today a reader--tomorrow a leader.
— W. Fusselman

Help spread the love of reading this Christmas ~ and for a lifetime ~ to children at risk.

In the true spirit of giving, and with the desire to reach out to our precious children, the people of Salmon Arm are making a difference again this Christmas.

Through this, and similar programs, thousands and thousands of dollars of Usborne books have been distributed to non-profit organizations and children’s centres throughout the Shuswap, including the S.A.F.E. house, Shuswap Family Resource Centre, Mount Ida School, various preschools/daycares, School District 83, Food/Toy Bank, Province Empty Stocking Fund and more..

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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
— Oprah Winfrey

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
— Elizabeth Hardwick