REMINDER: This Thursday's SMORGASBORD!

A friendly reminder to come to a special pre-season event
this Thursday, September 17 at 6pm.

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It's going to whet your appetite
for books, children's literature, and for reconnecting
to this fabulous community of writers and thinkers.

 

NOTE: The Central Downtown Library's underground parking garage entrance is on Spring Street, between Fourth and Fifth Streets. Parking is $6 after 5pm.

See the all-star lineup, below:

Featuring: Reader Services Librarian Linda Johns and Children’s and Teen Services Librarian Deborah Sandler, city librarian Marcellus Turner, First Lady of WA Trudi Inslee, Readers to Eaters' Philip Lee, chef/educator Tarik Abdullah, Hot Stove Society's Bridget Charters, Seattle Times freelance writer Rebekah Denn, Eduardo Jordan of Salare Restaurant, PIE SCHOOL author Kate Lebo, Secret Garden Books, and our own SCBWI-WWA's Lois Brandt, Kelly Jones, Sara Nickerson, and Katherine Pryor.

Cultivating Readers! And Eaters!

Happy Food Literacy Month!

A goodwill announcement from

Philip Lee, Readers to Eaters

I’d like to highlight two lines from the Proclamation since it’s been coming up a lot:

• WHEREAS, “Food literacy” is defined as the understanding of the impact of food choices on health, community, and environment.

• WHEREAS, The objective of Food Literacy Month is to promote food education, inspire food choices that are good for people and good for the planet, encourage parental involvement, and motivate communitywide support; 

Our event, CULTIVATING READERS, is coming up in just over two weeks and I’m starting to get more buzz about it. KOMO TV may want to interview First Lady Trudi Inslee in the afternoon before our event. It’d certainly give it great exposure. 

Completely separately, I’d like to share a project I’m working on that is very exciting. The Points of Light Foundation, founded by President H.W. Bush, has selected a book I published, Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table, written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and illustrated by debut artist Eric-Shabazz Larkin, to break the Guinness World Record for the number of children being read to in a 24-hour period as part of the "Read Across the Globe" initiative. Volunteers all over the world will read FARMER WILL ALLEN on October 19-20. The goal is to reach more than 300,000 children during this time. "Even astronaut Scott Kelly plans to read the book aloud from outer space, although he won't be counted in the tally since he won't be in a classroom.” More here. 

––Philip