First Book-Seattle's Special Storytime event with 15+ favorite kids books read by local celebrities and more! - Saturday, May 19th 2012 from 11am-3pm

Go and attend this marvelous storytime event happening tomorrow at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle!

" First Book-Seattle and Elliott Bay Book Company will be co-sponsoring "What Was Your First Book?", a lively Read-A-Thon of local community members taking turns reading aloud the very first children's book they each fell in love with.

Day-of Reading Schedule:
11:10 AM     Poet Daemond Arrindell reading Where The Wild Things Are
11:20 AM     Elizabeth Kruse reading Wait til the Moon is Full
11:30 AM     Sherman Alexie reading The Snowy Day
11:40 AM     Jennie Richie reading The Monster at the End of This Book
11:50 AM     Rat City Rollergirl Shovey Chase (Jennifer Warnick) reading Click, Clack, Moo
12:10 PM     Poet Martha Silano reading The Little Red Hen
12:20 PM     Librarian Misha Stone reading from Frog & Toad Together
12:30 PM     Congressman Jim McDermott reading from The Black Tanker
12:40 PM     Cupcake maven Jody Hall reading from Where the Sidewalk Ends
12:50 PM     Seattle Police Officer
1:10 PM       Brian McGuigan reading from The Light in the Attic
1:20 PM       Seattle Firefighter reading The Fire Cat
1:30 PM       Overlake High student Jennifer Zhan reading from The Phantom Tollbooth
1:40 PM       Seattle Police Officer
1:50 PM       Seattle Public Schools teacher Erin Dunlap reading Blueberries for Sal
2:10 PM       Seattle Monorail driver Craig Nelson reading The Little Red Hen
2:20 PM       Seattle Police Officer
2:30 PM       Stranger columnist Paul Constant reading The Monster at the End of This Book
2:40 PM       Lacey Jane Henson reading from Gnomes
2:50 PM       US Air Force pilot Brendan Harrison reading Football Fugitive
 
We'll also have a silent auction of beloved kids' books inscribed by Mayor Mike McGinn, Senator Patty Murray, local authors, and other local celebrities, as well as a raffle of gift baskets for kids, sports lovers, spa lovers, and cooks.

Our goal with this Read-A-Thon is to give six new books to every child in twenty Title 1 classrooms in King County. You can give six new books to one child for $15; an entire classroom of 22 children will receive six new books for $330. Each featured readers is raising pledge donations to help us meet our goal. Will you make a pledge donation on behalf of one of our readers? "


For more info. go here.