With over twenty five entries, forty students involved, and parents streaming through the library this morning, there is no doubt that our final Books 2 Eat celebration has been a success. If you haven’t seen our Pre K, K and 1st Grade entries from week one, go here and if you’d like to see what the 2nd and 3rd grade dished up… check this out!

Congratulations to student participants from every 4th and 5th grade class, an achievement within itself, your creations are causing huge oooohs and aaahs all through the library. A special well done to Mrs. Rekate’s class for having ten students involved in baking for Books 2 Eat today, you just beat Ms. Happer with her eight entries two weeks ago.

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My favorite event of the year begins in one week; the Shanghai Literary Festival.

Unfortunately, they won’t be running their regular Books to Eat Competition, so we are going to run our own. The competition involves participants baking something, most often a cake, or something sweet, based on a book.

*Entering is voluntary.

*There will be three divisions:

Friday March 1st: open to all PreK, K and 1st grade students, teachers and specialists

Friday March 8th:open to all 2nd and 3rd grade students, teachers and specialists

Friday March 15th: open to all 4th and 5th grade students, teachers and specialists

In years past, several of our SAS students have had success winning prizes in categories including tastiest, most creative and people’s choice. We will have many, many categories for our students to achieve success in, nobody will go away empty handed. Some examples for your creation include:

Princess and the Pea
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Paper Bag Princess
Trucks
James and the Giant Peach

Please consider getting creative with your child, this really is a fun way to celebrate literature, you are only limited by your imagination. Please include a copy of your book with your cake, see pictures below.

Registration forms are available from the ES library and are due by 3 pm the Tuesday before your Friday cake competition. Children will be asked to put

*their name and class

*book title and author’s name

Cakes and their accompanying books must be delivered to the ES Library as soon as your child arrives on Friday morning. They will be judged before morning recess, viewed throughout the day, and available for eating after 2 pm!

Some of the awards given will be for taste, so IF you don’t want your cake to be eaten, please make sure you let me know personally via e mail: kimbra.power@saschina.org as part of the idea is for the students to have a lot of fun with this, and everybody loves eating cake! Therefore, please do NOT use nuts, or nut products in any of your creations.

Below are some photos of last years entries, and here is a link to some great photos of other Books to Eat competitions around the world. Google books to eat and check out what is out there.