Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 – All first grade students in the Thames Valley District School Board will be receiving a free book as a celebration of Canadian Children’s Book Week.
The books are being provided by the TD Financial Group and the Canadian Children’s Book Centre, who will give each student in Canada a copy of Let’s Go – The Story of Getting from There to Here by Canadian author Lizann Flatt and illustrated by Scot Ritchie. The book takes its readers on a journey across North America and through time.
Twenty-nine English speaking authors, illustrators and storytellers will be visiting schools, libraries, bookstores and community centres across the country to talk about the pleasures of reading, writing and illustrating books. Here in London, two schools will have the opportunity to participate in a reading by Flatt and Ritchie.
The books will arrive at the schools sometime during book week from November 13 – 21. Combined classes will receive books for the students in Grade 2 as well. Students are meant to take the books home to keep and read with their parents.
This is the tenth year the Canadian Children’s Book Centre has distributed the free books, with 540,000 books in English and French given out last year.
