Book Start, the annual campaign for St. Maarten library 2011 with the title "Read to me" under the slogan "Caring is sharing", came to a successful end on September 24th.
Our aim was to stimulate babies and toddlers and educate parents about the importance of reading to their children from an early age. During the campaign we 68 babies and toddlers registered to become members of the library. The Philipsburg Jubilee Library would like to thank all the persons who made it a grand success.
We would like to thank the following companies and organizations who assisted us during our babies and toddlers program. Special thanks is going out to ENNIA Insurances who were our major supporters, to Manrique Capriles and Electra for the donation of Johnson & Johnson products during their own campaign, AMFO for those wonderful age appropriate books, to all the participants at our first open house for the children under age 5, SIFMA, the Collective Prevention Services, La’ Rich Studios, FUNSHAQ, KLUSHA the clown, UNIQUE balloon décor, So Contagious graphic designers, Zoya Hyman for dancing with the B & T, workshops by Patricia Maier and Aukje de Jong, our story tellers Gini van Duivenvoorde and Edith Peters, and not forgetting ELMO from N.C. Wathey Group of Companies.
We would also like to thank you our babies and toddlers, and parents, for caring and sharing. Hope to see every one of you at next years "Read to me" so spread the word for 2012.