A pop-up book market held over the weekend to raise funds for sick kids proved to be a tremendous success.<\/p>\n
The Children’s Hospital Book Market hosted a one-day event at St. Vital Centre, raising over $33,000 in just seven hours.<\/p>\n
“This money will help fund Child Life programming at Winnipeg’s Children’s Hospital, bringing comfort to sick and injured kids and their families,” said the Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba in a post on social media.<\/p>\n
Child Life programming provides comfort and support to children and their families during extended hospital stays. It includes music therapy, the library program, CHTV (the hospital\u2019s closed-circuit television station for kids) and a playroom with toys, games, crafts and a mini hospital where children can play out their experiences with treatments and procedures.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The one-day special event featured a variety of genres, including fiction, mystery, romance, cookbooks, science, travel, computer and university titles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It also featured all things music, with everything from CDs to DVDs and LPs to a wide selection of how-to books for singing and playing instruments. There will also be a wide selection of puzzles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Carol Irving, volunteer coordinator for the Children’s Hospital Book Market, says she finds that the public is starving for books.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We typically in the past have had only two big sales a year, one in April and one in September,” said Irving. “So we found by having these smaller sales that we are attracting a large crowd of people. And they’re very thankful for us doing this because people who bought books in September, by February, when we had a pop-up sale, they were starving for books and just very, very, very thankful that we were offering this to the public. So we’re experimenting.”<\/p>\n
The next Children’s Hospital Book Market pop-up sale will take place at St. Vital Centre on Oct. 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pop-up book market held over the weekend to raise funds for sick kids proved to be a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-81177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}