The Montreal Children's Hospital is the pediatric teaching hospital of the McGill University Health Centre. This institution is a leader in the care and treatment of sick infants, children, and adolescents from across Quebec. The Montreal Children's Hospital provides a high level and broad scope of health care services, and provides ultra specialized care in many fields. Fully bilingual and multicultural, the institution respectfully serves an increasingly diverse community in more than 50 languages. Every year since 1999, Family Literacy Day has been celebrated in Canada to promote the importance of reading and learning together as a family. Because of the economic and social consequences of this problem, promoting literacy is an important part of preventive pediatric medicine. One in four high school graduates can't read or write well enough to further their education. On January 27, it will celebrate Family Literacy Day for the first time by inviting three children's writers and entertainers to visit the hospital to read, sing and perform to children, their parents and staff. There are also displays, games, and books and toy give-aways. The writers and entertainers will be at The Montreal Children's Hospital on the second floor clinic area and each performance will last approximately 25 minutes. Lp Camozzi will read in English from his book Pasta Pazoo aimed at children ages three to five years old. He will also sing some of his original children's songs and play the blues harmonica. Marie-Louise Gay will read in French from her picture-book stories Stella, aimed at children ages 4 to 9 years old. For the last fifteen years, she has been writing, illustrating and creating only for children. Anna Fuerstenberg will read in English and Spanish three stories for children ages 9 to 12, Under The Lilacs, Play Ball and The Mirror. She writes, directs, performs, teaches and was the artistic director of the bilingual Teatro Sin Fronteras in Toronto and the Theater Plant.

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