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2007 Writing for Babies Call for Manuscripts And Call for an Expression of Interest from Illustrators

As part of our ongoing involvement with early literacies in New Brunswick , the Early Childhood Centre at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, in concert with Born to Read NB, is sponsoring a province-wide English-language “writing for babies” manuscript search.

The winning author will have their manuscript illustrated by a New Brunswick illustrator. 6000 copies will be printed for distribution through the Born to Read, Books for Babies programme in 2007. Born to Read is a provincial program, funded by numerous individuals and organizations. The mandate of Born to Read is to provide every newborn with quality, age-appropriate books in an effort to instil a love of reading in children.

The winner will have his or her manuscript illustrated by a New Brunswick illustrator.

 A prize in the amount of $3,000.00, constituting a royalty advance, will be awarded to the winner.

 The winning book will land in the laps of thousands of New Brunswick newborns over the next year.

In conjunction with the call for manuscripts, the jury is calling for an expression of interest from visual artists and illustrators with ability for children’s book illustration. Those interested should forward website links and/or copies of illustrations for consideration. Please ensure to include full contact information. We regret that we are unable to return samples, so please send copies of your work.

Once the winning manuscript is selected, illustrators who have expressed an interest in illustrating a children’s book will be asked to submit an illustration fitting the winning text. After that point, an illustrator will be selected for the book.

A prize in the amount of $3000.00, constituting a royalty advance, will be awarded to the winner.

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Curriculum Framework Symposium - October 19th & 20th, 2005

This symposium was a first step in the development of an Anglophone framework for the N.B. Early Learning and Care Curriculum. This symposium offered opportunities to look at exemplary frameworks, and discuss principles, values and curricular components for New Brunswick. The gathering served to bring a variety of viewpoints together and honour the expertise of all participants including: practitioners and supervisory staff; civil servants from Family and Community Services, Health and Wellness, Education, Culture and Sport and Training, Employment and Development, and Early Childhood Educators and Researchers from the University of New Brunswick.

The powerpoint slides that were presented during the symposium are here.

(contact: eccentre@unb.ca)

Language Literacy and Healthy Development

This was developed in conjunction with CAPC and CPNP. The purpose of this resource:

- To communicate how CAPC and CPNP projects make connections between language, literacy and healthy development
- To provide relevant support to CAPC and CPNP managers and staff so they can:

SSHRC Grant
E/Merging Literacies of home, family, and community: valuing the literacies of Community workers and Mothers. This research focused upon the way literacy practices have emerged in the contexts of federal and provincial health initiatives. In particular it examined the literacy practices of Early Intervention and Family Resource Centre staff in their work with mothers and children and the ways these practices can inform/shape ongoing initiatives including "ready for school" initiatives.

HRDC Grant
E/Merging Literacies: Parents learn as they teach their children. This research work enabled the dissemination of Parenting for a Literate Community Program across Canada. As well, it aided in enhancing the literacy development of parents in the context of daily childrearing, domestic and community activities.

Mary Grannan
This publication is a collective tribute to Mary Grannan, perhaps Fredericton's most famous storyteller. In the Year 2000, 100 years aftert Mary's birth, local writer Ted Jones published an article about Mary in "The Daily Gleaner". That article instigated this remembrance of Mary Grannan. (contact: whitty@unb.ca)

Maternal Literacies
Maternal Literacies was an action research SSHRC funded project intended to facilitate the inclusion of maternal literacies into schooled literacies. The main project ran from 1993-1996. (contact: pnason@unb.ca)

Parenting  for a Literate Community
Parenting for a Literate Community was funded, in part, by Health Canada. For this project we ran a parent and child literacy program and did training sessions with Early Intervention and Family Resource Centre personnel. We developed a collection of literacy training materials appropriate for those working with children and parents in centre based literacy initiatives. There is a wealth of data here that we interpreted. We examined the multiple literacies of young children and the continuities and discontinuities between home and schooled literacies. (contact: eccentre@unb.ca)

Fredericton Institute for the Deaf
An emerging historical research project of this residential school for the deaf that operated in Fredericton from 1882-1902. It closed as a result of the findings of the Barry Commission 1902-1903. (contact: whitty@unb.ca)