November 2005
Gifts that Give Twice:
Local Groups Benefit from Sales
A Day at the Market
Seattle author Sara Anderson has lived and worked at the Pike Place Market for 25 years. She captures the sights and sounds of her beloved market – baskets of produce, buckets of flowers, busking musicians and browsing shoppers – in her 10th children’s book, A Day at the Market. Bright images crowd onto the pages, rendered in her signature cut-paper style.
A pre-publication limited edition of A Day at the Market will benefit the Market Foundation and Page Ahead Children’s Literacy Program.
“Through the local services they support, the Market Foundation helps many of my neighbors in the market who could easily have been forgotten,” Anderson says. This includes the market’s medical clinic, senior center, childcare center and preschool and downtown food bank.
Anderson has a long association with Page Ahead, and selected it because of its focus on providing free, high quality books to low-income children. “For kids from low-income families, books are a luxury,” notes Sam Whiting, executive director of Page Ahead. “Giving those kids the very best books is a real incentive to help them to read.”
Order A Day at the Market for $14.95 by contacting Page Ahead, 206-461-0123, www.pageahead.org, or the Market Foundation, 206-774-5243, www.pikeplacemarket.org. Orders will be shipped after Dec. 1. The book can also be purchased at retail bookstores listed at www.adayatthemarket.org. In the new year, it will be published nationally by Handprint Books and distributed through Chronicle Books.
Sing with a Child
Sing With a Child is a compilation of favorite PEPS (Program for Early Parent Support) songs, including “The Noble Duke of York,” “The Wheels on the Bus,” and a few songs in Spanish. Research shows that singing together encourages infant and toddler brain development and increases school readiness.
Proceeds support PEPS, a nonprofit organization that runs support groups for parents of newborns (birth-4 months), as well as Infant/Toddler, Teen Parents and PEPS en Español for parents of children from birth to 3 years old. It serves parents in King and South Snohomish Counties.
Order Sing with a Child for $12.99 by calling PEPS at 206-547-8570, ext. 22 or visiting www.pepsgroup.org. It is also available on www.amazon.com.
Say Goodnight to Illiteracy
Half Price Books has released the 11th edition of the children’s storybook, Say Good Night to Illiteracy, to promote reading to children and to support Literacy USA, a national alliance of literacy coalitions.
The 20 poems and stories were chosen from more than 3,000 entries to the Storybook Writing Contest. The compilation includes “The Letter Y” by Kevin Binz, a 17-year-old homeschooled student from Normandy Park; “The Dragon Poem” by Jeffrey Pearce, a Stanwood father of two; and “The Leaf-Raking Contest” by Ben Joselyn, a 15-year-old high school student from Snoqualmie. Each bedtime story is accompanied by a commissioned illustration. (Enter the writing contest for next year’s edition by Dec. 1; applications are available at Half Price bookstores or at www.halfpricebooks.com.)
Books are $4.98 at Half Price Books in Bellevue, Everett, Lynnwood, Seattle (Capitol Hill and the University District), Tacoma and Tukwila. Call 1-800-883-2114 to order by phone. Half Price Books also provides support to the King County Library System and Reach Out and Read programs to provide books and literary instruction as part of well-child exams.
Museum Tour Catalog
The Museum Tour Catalog has hundreds of gifts to make science fun – from Giant EarthBalls and skull-making kits to small-scale prehistoric digs and mechanical marvels. Other toys, books and CDs explore architecture, engineering, transportation, crafts, music and sports.
A portion of profits from sales goes to 22 museums around the country, including the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. Call 1-800-360-9116 to request a catalog or view it online at www.museumtour.com.
Children’s Museum of Tacoma Holiday Cards
For the past eight years, children of Tacoma have designed artwork to be used as holiday and gift cards for the Children’s Museum of Tacoma. Proceeds from the sale of the cards directly support CMT exhibits and programs.
View this year’s designs online at www.childrensmuseumoftacoma.org - click on “Holiday Cards” on the home page, then on “2005 Retail Order Form.” For more information on placing orders, call the museum at 253-627-6031.
Christmas in the Northwest 8
Christmas in the Northwest 8 is in stores this holiday season, 20 years after the first Christmas in the Northwest album was released to benefit Northwest children’s hospitals. Artists on the new CD include the Dave Matthews Band, Heart, Harvey Danger, Tingstad and Rumbel, LeRoy Bell and Gypsy Soul.
Proceeds from the $13.98 CD benefit Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle, the Children’s Miracle Network in Spokane and Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland. Find it at local Bartell Drugs, Borders Books & Music, Safeway, Silver Platters and Wal Mart stores or order it from www.amazon.com.
The “Christmas in the Northwest 20th Anniversary Prime Time Holiday Special,” featuring artists from this year’s CD, will air on KING-5 in early December.
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