Live Auction Resounding Success!
Photos provided by ERIC HASERT eric.hasert@scripps.com
Author and columnist Carl Hiaasen (left), Tony DiTerlizzi (right), illustrator of the animated series “The Spiderwick Chronicles, joined comedian Dan Bakkedahl and renowed book expert Nicholas Basbanes on stage to raise over $34,000 in the live auction . . . see full article
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/nov/20/little-auction-that-could-raises-almost-340000/
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What do you think?
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Luckovich's cartoon of Gingrich, Hefner, and Chomsky
What do Newt Gingrich, Hugh Hefner & Noam Chomsky have in common? The love of the same childhood book . . .
“It sounds like a bad joke, except the punchline is really funny. A politician, a playboy, and a philosopher walk into a bookstore, and are asked to pick the book they remember most warmly from their childhoods. . .” read the full article here http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/In-the-Margin/Common-Reading/ba-p/1726
And the book is . . .
Yep, that is Winnie the Pooh sharing candy from his Pez dispenser
The trio's favorite book was A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh read James Mustich's blog In the Margin . . .
http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/In-the-Margin/Common-Reading-Pt-II-Grin-and-Bear-It/ba-p/1784
the following news articles (Exhibit open till November 28th)
Anonymous donor makes $850,000 gift for Bushs' Book
http://www.page2live.com/2009/11/18/babar-book-signed-by-barbara-and-jeb-bush-goes-for-850000/
WPTV Channel 5 Newscast
http://www.wptv.com/content/news/topstories/story/Celebrity-book-auction-to-benefit-childrens-cente/LT0GwD3Ge0yhGSVG65GKzg.cspx
TCPalm Front page article . . . see all the books in photo gallery
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/nov/05/novel-celebrity-book-auction-to-raise-money-for/
Jose Lambiet's Page 2 Live
http://www.page2live.com/2009/11/06/words-in-celebrities-books-spell-cash-for-stuart-non-profit/#postcomment
Big Names, Big Laughs, Big Cause
If you were asked what childhood book made a lasting impression on you, what would you reply? Treasure Island? Green Eggs and Ham? Where the Wild Things Are? Or the iconic American classic The Little Engine That Could?
This very question was answered by over 80 celebrities. . . screen legends, sports stars, authors, musicians, philosophers and politicians . . .and the responses are as varied as the personalities who selected them (Jimmy Buffett and Sean Connery both love Treasure Island)!
You have just a couple of days left to bid on these highly collectible, signed editions and learn more about the stories that inspired these 80 + celebrities.
Don't miss this chance to support the Hibiscus Children’s Center.
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