Jujube’s on the move

Jujube Bookstore has added a new dimension to bookselling in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.{{more}}

The company has introduced a mobile book service.

Last Thursday, mothers attending the annual Mother’s Day lunch at the Discovery Preschool at Villa were given the opportunity to purchase books, games and supplementary learning aids, such as workbooks and flashcards for their preschoolers, when the bookstore set up a booth on site at the event.

Last month, the bookstore was hosted by the Sugar Mill Academy at Ratho Mill and presented what was dubbed a Buzzing Book Fair. The event culminated that school’s reading activities, which included a Read Around the World competition, in which children were rewarded for “reading miles,” measured by how many books they read in a given period.

The fair gave the children the opportunity to view different genres of books, and to purchase books using book vouchers, which the school awarded as prizes in the Read Around the World Competition.

Another feature of the book fair was an “It’s A-parent” draw, in which each parent who attended was given the opportunity to win prizes for both parent and child. The winning parent was awarded a spa treatment, which was donated by Oasis Spa at Ratho Mill, while the child was awarded a Jujube gift card, redeemable toward any purchase at the store. Monique Tash of Oasis Spa expressed her eagerness to support such activities for children.

Jujube Bookstore also made a donation of a series of classical stories to the school’s library.

Michele Samuel, Managing Director of Jujube, said that the bookstore has participated in several similar events. During the Reading Extravaganza put on by the C.W. Prescod Primary School in March, the bookstore also set up a booth at which books were exhibited and sold. Jujube donated to the school a percentage of the sales realised at the event, along with prizes for various competitions held. A book exhibition was also put on as part of the Kingstown Anglican School’s Reading activities, also held in March.

According to Samuel, the bookstore will now institute a full-fledged mobile service which is intended to serve not only schools, but also communities throughout the island. The Grenadines will not be left out. The possibility exists of even journeying to Bequia in the not too distant future, Samuel added.