PARKING for CULTIVATING READERS event

PARKING INFORMATION AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY/CENTRAL BRANCH:

 [From Linda Johns, Reader Services Librarian, Seattle Public Library] 

Please be aware that the Seattle Public Library garage closes at 9.

We need to be out of the building as close to that time as possible, as to not incur charges for security and the garage (which is a private company, not a part of the City of Seattle).

People can pretty easily find street parking after 6, as well as if they park in the garage and want to find a street spot at 9.

 

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

       

Our pre-season kickoff event

Thursday, September 17
 Seattle Public Library, Central Branch
1000 Fourth Avenue, Seattle, 98104
6pm

Please join us for a Pre-Season programming event, featuring some of our local SCBWI-WWA writers and illustrators, who are joining together for kids as readers, and kids as eaters. It's going to blow the roof off of the Central Library! Don't miss this special occasion, brought to you by your peeps at SCBWI-WWA, Readers to Eaters, and the Seattle Public Library.

Art by Dana Arnim.

 
The evening kicks off at 6 p.m. in the SirsiDynix Gallery with exhibits and demonstrations from local food organizations. The main presentation begins at 7 p.m. in the Microsoft Auditorium, with opening remarks from Trudi Inslee, First Lady of the State of Washington.
 
The First Lady is followed by a panel discussion featuring:

Tarik Abdullah, Chef and educator, DJ and a Cook Pop Up Series

Bridget Charters, Director, Hot Stove Society, Tom Douglas Restaurants

Rebekah Denn, freelance food writer for the Seattle Times

Edouardo Jordan, Chef/Owner, Salare Restaurant

Kate Lebo, author, Pie School: Lessons in Fruit, Flour and Butter

Philip Lee, Publisher, Readers to Eaters

Authors we know whose books will be featured are:

Lois Brandt, Maddi's Fridge

Kelly Jones, Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer

Sara Nickerson, Secrets of Blueberries, Brothers, Moose & Me

Katherine Pryor, Zora’s Zucchini 

 
  Books will be available to purchase from Secret Garden Books.


Exhibitors (6 to 7 p.m., SirsiDynix Gallery, Level 1):
Cascade Harvest Coalition
King County EcoConsumer
PCC Healthy Kids
Pike Place Market Food Access Project
Pure Food Kids Foundation
Readers To Eaters
Seattle School Nutrition Services
Slow Food Seattle
Tom Douglas Restaurants
Washington Library Association
Washington Library Media Association
Washington State Farmers Market Association
Washington Sustainable Food & Farming Network
 

 

  

Calling all foodies!

Got a food-related book? Let us know!



We're working on some collaboration initiatives with Readers to Eaters, and one thing we'd like to do is curate a list of our members' recent (last 5 years or so) PAL titles that have food as a theme. They don't have to be about food, necessarily, but anything where food plays a significant part in the story, whether that be as part of the plot, character, setting, culture, etc. If you're a current PAL member and you think your book might qualify, would you please send an email with your name and the publication info to our PAL Member Liaison,  Laurie Ann Thompson, at laurie(at)lauriethompson(dot)com?


Thanks!