Feb. 23, 2004
ROCKFORD, Ill. - The Pookai Book Project today shipped its first donation of 2004 to The Angsoeng Library.
Twenty-one books, the majority of them for children, were sent along with $250.
The Project sent the following books: The Writer’s Harbrace Handbook from John C. Hughes, Robert Keith Miller, Suzanne Strockbeck Webb and Winifred Bryan Horner; Webster’s Classic Reference Library from Landoll’s Inc.; Castles by Gallimord Jeunesse; Breathing by John Gaskin; Gumdrop and the Farmer’s Friend by Val Biro; The Ball Game by David Packard; A Bad, Bad Day by Kristen Hall; The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy by Jane Thayer; Rugrats, Jungle Trek by Stephanie St. Pierrre; The Teeny Tiny Woman by Jane O’Connor; My Tooth is About to Fall Out by Grace Maccarone; A Quarter From The Tooth Fairy by Caren Holtzman; Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox by Grace Maccarone; Days With Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel; If You Give a Moose a Cookie by Laura Jaffe Numeroff; The Tale of Gus the Grumbly Grizzley by Terri Wiltshire; The Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood; Dinosaur Dream by Dennis Nolan; What Do Bananas Do All Day by Judy Mastrangelo; Old Black Fly by Jim Applesworth; What Mommies Do Best by Laura Numeroff; What Daddies Do Best by Laura Numeroff; Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak; and My Dinosaur by Mark Alan Weatherby.
This year, The Pookai Book Project will try and send $1,500 to the Angsoeng Library – an increase of $300 from last year.
The Pookai Project’s mission is to help the restoration of Cambodia by gathering funds and need-specific books for the nation’s libraries. These donations will promote literacy, accelerate education, speed economic development and empower Cambodians to take their place on the world stage. Its first client is the Angsoeng Library, run by leading journalist Chandara Lor.