This year is our 8th year of running Books to Eat, and it will be a little different. No one will have to queue up and fight over making sure they get to eat THEIR creation at the end of the day, this year, that pleasure will be ALL YOURS!

While we won’t get to smell the scent of sugar through our library for days at a time, you can enjoy the wonderful aromas of whatever you make it in your home.

We would like as many families as possible to make the effort, and take the time, to engage in this wonderful opportunity to create something together. 

The concept is simple and is essentially-make something edible to go with a book. You could go about this a number of ways.

You could think about something you know how to bake/cook, something you like to bake, or want to bake, and THEN look for a book that MATCHES your edible dish.

or

Perhaps you have a favorite book that you like to read with your child, and so you look at the book through a new lens, thinking of something edible you could match it with. It could be that you bake a cake that looks like the cover of the book, or a character or scene in the book. It might be that you make something that is mentioned or shown IN the book. 

I am sharing a couple of videos here, one via Youku so everyone in China can access it, and two via Youtube for those that have a VPN. 

Here is a link to the Youku clip sharing Books to Eat entries from 2019. There are ads at the beginning, be patient. This link will work in China.

Search books to eat on the top right corner of this page to see many many other posts about the even over the years, including many wonderful photos.

Click here to see the Books to Eat Fact Sheet that provides a good timeline for running the event during regular times.

Yours in Creativity

Please use the #books2eat2020 when posting on social media and I’d love to be tagged too so I can see as many entries as possible.

Kimbra