Fifth Annual Edible Book Festival
KBAC Gallery, April 2, 2010
Our judge: David Small

Our 5th Annual Edible Book Festival took place during Art Hop on Friday, April 2. Part of an international April Fools celebration of the art of the book it happens each year at libraries and book arts centers in 18 countries around the world. Our creative community created 15 books good enough to eat and joined nearly 400 visitors to view and feast on the delectible entries.

This year’s judge was award-winning illustrator and author David Small. He has illustrated over 40 books and his drawings have appeared frequently in the New Yorker and New York Times. He is the winner of two Caldecott Medals and several other awards. His latest book, Stitches: A Memoir, a graphically told story of his childhood, was published in September of 2009.

Small chose one edible book for the top award, a free one-day workshop at the KBAC and two additional prizes: an autographed copy of Stitches: a memoir and a very special limited edition copy of a children's storybook by David Small packaged with a box of Cheerios. The winner of this prize was Dennis Flatt’s entry Leaves of Grass.

This year we introduced a new award, The People’s Choice, where viewers select an entry to be awarded a copy of a KBAC Poets in Print broadside of their choice and an autographed copy Stitches: a memoir. The winner of this award was the Tiara Book Club with their entry Olive-R-Twist.

Photos of this year’s entries, winners and festivities are shown on this page. For a view of entries from previous years, or those from other Edible Book events around the world follow the links below.

For information on Edible Book events elsewhere visit
www.books2eat.com

See entries from the 2009 Edible Book Event

See entries from the 2008 Edible Book Event

See entries from the 2007 Edible Book Event

See entries from the 2006 Edible Book Event

WINNER: Leaves of Grass	Dennis Flatt
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD: Olive-R-Twist	Tiara Book Club
Alice in Wonderbread	Brown Sugar Book Club
The Black Rose	Brown Sugar Book Club
Cinnamon Kiss	Brown Sugar Book Club
The Crispy Ten	Marianne Swierenga
Dames and the Giant Beach	Tova and Sue Carter
Frank 'n Stein	Brown Sugar Book Club
Huckleberry Finn	Natally Bones & Nevada Rickert
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie	Julia Gantman
Michigan Trail Guide	Jean Stevens
Miss Hickory	Sara Keller
Ozymandius	Jon Holtzman
The Shaq	Brown Sugar Book Club
White Trash Cooking	Amy Ferguson & Carol Rhodes