Library: Montreal Children's Library

Program: Family Reading

Goals: To support family reading

Target: Children and families

Description:

• Regular Story Times for children in the library and at daycare centres.
• Summer Reading Program
• After-school Programs to offer homework help in reading skills.
• Mother Goose Rhyme-Time:
  This is a one-hour program bringing together parents and their little ones to introduce them to the power and pleasure of nursery rhymes, songs and stories. The rationale for the project is to equip parents with new ways to build healthy relationships with their babies, based on language, play and verbal interaction.

Partners: Other libraries, Tyndale Educators, daycare centres.