Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak inaugurates children's book fair

Egypt's First Lady Suzanne Mubarak on Thursday stressed that child culture no longer depended solely on books, but on other vehicles of knowledge in today's changing world.

The statements came in Mrs. Mubarak's word at the inauguration of the 18th Cairo International Children s Book Fair.

Efforts aimed to develop textbooks should not be governmental ones only, but private publication houses should also be encouraged to take part in the process, Mrs. Mubarak said.

Mrs. Mubarak called on caring for child books and developing them and to focus on scientific books and simplified books that meet the needs of children.

Mrs. Mubarak hailed the role of education ministry role in developing educational curricula and called for setting up integrated strategy for educating children in Egypt after investing millions of pounds in building and modernizing libraries and improving the kind of services.

Mrs. Mubarak also praised the child oriented media role in the age of satellites and open skies.

Moreover, Mrs. Mubarak said that she will hold a meeting with all officials in charge of issuing magazines in Egypt to redistribute the various roles concerned with addressing children in their different age stages.