BCLCIRA Cookbook

BCLCIRA HOSTS SUCCESSFUL COOKBOOK LAUNCH

By Donna McCormick

Immediately following the Literacy 2004 Fall Conference, BCLCIRA hosted a very successful reception to officially launch their new cookbook, Readers, Writers, and Recipes. There was a harvest theme for this reception and featured decorations of scarecrows made by students from Gail Misek’s grade four class at Sunshine Hills Elementary in Delta. All participants enjoyed cake made by a parent from Montroyal Elementary School in North Vancouver. The cake was decorated with a replica of the cookbook’s front cover art design.

A number of the cookbook’s contributing authors and illustrators including Ron Jobe, James Heneghan, Melanie Jackson, Linda Bailey and Ainsle Manson attended this event and were available to sign purchased copies of the cookbook. Special recognition and presentations were made to Arthur Leung, who did the cookbook’s front cover art design and section sketches, as well as to Melanie Jackson and Mary Lee Hofmann who spent countless volunteer hours to help us with the copy editing and production of the book. The BCLCIRA’s cookbook committee members; Donna McCormick, Honey Halpern, Shirley Choo, Ken Cooper, Meredyth Kezar and Nancy Sinclair were also acknowledged for the countless hours of work they spent on this literacy project.

Miss Teen Vancouver, Katie Gordon, also spoke for a few minutes about why she chose literacy as a topic for her platform. She will be speaking to audiences at various functions and events throughout the year and will be helping us to promote the sale of the cookbook.

The launch concluded with a draw for an enormous Mr. Christie food basket, a copy of the cookbook and a number of other book prizes.

All proceeds from the sale of the cookbook will be used to purchase books written by B.C. children’s book authors and illustrators and donated to schools throughout B.C.

To order the cookbook, which will be sent to you by postal mail, please download and mail the order form (PDF). For other questions, email jcarlton (AT) vsb.bc.ca.