Within the framework of the Bookmates program, students of Day Care Center – Kindergarten have the opportunity to become acquainted with books, authors, and illustrators of a publishing house during a school year. Thus, the book becomes a game, joy, knowledge, communication, an act of creation.
From 1994 through 2006 the reading program was pioneered in cooperation with Ianos and included the following programs: Reading Rally, Literature in Education, Give Me Your Book, World Days and Literature, Literature Writes about History, Literature Writes about Society, Literature Writes about the Olympiad, Lessons of Thessaloniki, Literature on the Silver Screen – History on the Silver Screen, Aesop Was the Beginning, Re-Reading the Greek Classics. Through these programs, renowned literary figures made presentations at Mandoulides Schools: A. Varela, N. Dimopoulos, S. Zarampouka, A. Zei, M. Kontoleon, N. Bakolas, L. Petrovits – Androutsopoulou, E. Proviolou, Z. Sari, G. Skampardonis, G. Soureli, P. Sfyridis, E. Trivizas, E. Fakinou, T. Chortiati, and V. Hislop.
