January 03, 2008
Toronto Star
TORONTO (Jan 3, 2008)
Aiming for quality over quantity, Ontario's Lieutenant-Governor David Onley is asking citizens to donate new children's books to help aboriginal kids and teens living in remote northern communities.
The former television broadcaster, who is continuing the book appeal begun by his predecessor James Bartleman, said new books are the best way to keep children in fly-in First Nations communities as up to date as kids in the south.
Bartleman's previous drives netted more than 2 million "gently used" books to establish libraries in the reserves where the cost of living is high and resources are few.
But "a certain proportion of those were books that were just not appropriate for kids," Onley said yesterday.
"Those of us who live in southern Ontario take the availability of public libraries and book stores in every town and city for granted," said Onley, a former education reporter who recalled being an avid reader as a child while recovering from polio surgeries.
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