Not Your Usual Sidewalk Sale

Straight from Secret Garden Books:

This year during all the wild shenanigans that make up the 30th Annual Ballard SeafoodFest, we're doing something a little different. We've unearthed the voluminous trove of children's book posters we've been assiduously collecting since 1995 . . . and we're offering them up for sale on a pay-what-you-like basis as a benefit for our friends at Page Ahead.

Come take home your favorite kid-lit art, and support a great cause.

It starts this Friday, July 9, at 4 p.m. For full details check out their website

Join Kirby Larson at a luncheon for Page Ahead

If you care about kids and books, consider joining Kirby Larson at a table for 10 at the Page Ahead luncheon fundraiser on May 12! There are only two seats left at the table! Please join in to help raise money for an organization whose goal is to give a book to every single at-risk child in the state of Washington! And not just any book, but a book of the child's choice.

Lunch is free but if you come, please bring a checkbook. Page Ahead is hoping that each guest will donate $165; donations of $250 or more will be matched by corporate sponsors.

Please email kirby, kirby AT kirbylarson.com by April 22 if you are interested.

Page Ahead turns 20--and gives away its 2,000,000th book!

From the inbox:

Dear SCBWI Western Washington,
Thank you for all your support to inspire a love of reading in Washington's kids in need. We appreciate your enthusiasm, and would like to invite you to join us in celebration of a milestone--we're giving away our 2,000,000th book! On Friday, March 12th at Van Asselt Elementary, we'll have a short presentation, including a book reading by First Gentleman Mike Gregoire and a performance by Radio Disney. Immediately following, we'll give away our 2,000,000th book. I've attached the invitation, and please feel free to pass this along to anyone you feel might be interested in joining the fun. We hope to see you there!
- LeAnne Chow, Community Outreach Coordinator