Robert's Snow: first week schedule

I am very excited to be part of the Robert's Snow blog fest starting this week. This is an online auction to benefit the Dana Farber Institute for cancer research. Bloggers are highlighting the children's book illustrators that have contributed beautifully designed and created snowflakes. You can view all the 2007 snowflakes here. The whole blog fest is organized by Jules and Eisha from Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast. Jules explained recently:

"Over 150 illustrators were chosen by approximately 65 bloggers, and they will be featuring the snowflake-making illustrators (some of them, but not all of them, by any means) for the Robert’s Snow 2007 online auctions, starting October 15 and all the way up until the day before the first auction, November 18. That means that during that time, about four or five illustrators a day will be featured at various blogs, even on Saturdays and Sundays."

At the Robert’s Snow 2007 online auctions you can see the snowflakes and bid on the ones you like. All the proceeds go towards cancer research so it is a wonderful cause to support and a great way to start holiday gift shopping!

Visit these blogs this week to read about the illustrators and see their snowflakes. Here is this week's schedule of blog highlights:

Monday, October 15

• Randy Cecil at ChatRabbit
• Michelle Chang at The Longstockings
• Kevin Hawkes at Cynthia Lord's Journal
• Barbara Lehman at The Excelsior File
• Grace Lin at In the Pages

Tuesday, October 16

• Selina Alko at Brooklyn Arden
• Scott Bakal at Wild Rose Reader
• Alexandra Boiger at Paradise Found
• Paige Keiser at Your Neighborhood Librarian
• Janet Stevens at The Miss Rumphius Effect

Wednesday, October 17

• Rick Chrustowski at laurasalas
• Diane DeGroat at Jama Rattigan's Alphabet Soup
• Ilene Richard at Something Different Every Day
• Brie Spangler at Lectitans
• Don Tate at The Silver Lining

Thursday, October 18

• Brooke Dyer at Bookshelves of Doom
• D.B. Johnson at Lessons from the Tortoise
• Erin Eitter Kono at Sam Riddleburger
• Sherry Rogers at A Life in Books
• Jennifer Thermes at Through the Studio Door

Friday, October 19

• Graeme Base at Just One More Book
• Denise Fleming at MotherReader
• Jeff Mack at AmoXcalli
• Jeff Newman at A Year of Reading
• Ruth Sanderson at Book Moot

Saturday, October 20

• Linas Alsenas at A Wrung Sponge
• Theresa Brandon at The Shady Glade
• Karen Katz at Whimsy Books
• Judy Schachner at Kate's Book Blog
• Sally Vitsky at Shelf Elf: read, write, rave

Sunday, October 21

• Matthew Cordell at Just Like the Nut
• Maxwell Eaton III at Books and Other Thoughts
• Roz Fulcher at Goading the Pen
• Susie Jin at sruble's world
• Susan Mitchell at Check It Out

(Thanks to Jen Robinson for compiling all these links.) Please notice that I am interviewing Linas Alsenas right here at A Wrung Sponge on Saturday, October 20. WOO HOO!! I am so thrilled to be a part of this and I look forward to really learning a lot about all these fabulous children's book illustrators as well as helping support Robert’s Snow.