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Book Feast Fundraiser
Place:
Library Lawn - Outside of the Children's Storytime Room On Saturday, June 23, get ready to walk your beast for Book Feast!
10 am Beast Walk
$5 per beast *Includes dogs, cats, lizards, birds, your child, your husband, etc (live or stuffed). Each beast must be leashed. The walk starts at the Library parking lot along the Yampa River. The designated beast-walk course will go along the core trail for a 5K out and back walk.
11 am Doggy Beauty Pageant on the Library Lawn
Only $5 to enter! Prizes!
Categories include, but not limited to:
| Person/Dog Look-a-like | Best Dressed | Most Festive |
| Cutest/Ugliest | Best Beast (non-dog) | Best Coat |
| Youngest/Oldest | Fattest/ Fittest | Best Smile |
| Curliest Hair / Lack of Hair | Best Superhero or Sidekick | Best Singer / Talker |
*Food donations for both human and dog will be welcomed and sold at our food table with all the proceeds going to the Book Feast.
*Heeling Friends will also sponsor an agility contest on Library Lawn.
All proceeds go to the Children’s Book Feast to be held on September 8, 2012. Book Feast will feature renowned kid’s book authors and illustrators, who will lead dynamic presentations and workshops for kids of all ages. Featured authors include Brandon Mull, Ingrid Law, Avi, Sneed Collard, Janet Stevens, and Caroline Stutson! There will also be performances by hilarious storyteller, Bonnie Phipps, and the Buntport Theater Group. Special Skype visits from fabulous but far-away authors will include Dan Gutman and others!
Participation in this event and any additional monetary donation will directly support the visiting authors and help to ensure possible Book Feasts in the future! Book Feast is brought to you by Bud Werner Library, Steamboat Springs School District, Steamboat Springs Art Council, and Off the Beaten Path Bookstore.