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2008 Edible Book Festival

The 2008 Festival was held on April 1, 2008 at the University YMCA in Champaign.

Thanks to the Soybean Press, University of Illinois Press, and Bea Neattles for donating prizes! Also, thanks to Bea Nettles who photographed each entry before it is sliced for the viewers to enjoy!

The 2008 festival was co-sponsored by the University YMCA as a part of the Know Your University Series and by the Champaign Public Library with a grant from the Meet A Hero @ Your Library reading program. Funding for this grant was awarded by the Illinois State Library (ISL), a Division of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), under the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA).

Judges:

Jennifer Hain Teper, Conservation Librarian, UIUC
Fred Schlipf, retired director, Urbana Free Library
Ashlee Roderick, owner and pastry chef, The Cake Artist's Studio

Prizes were awarded in the following categories:

Top honors: Culinary
Top honors: Literary
Top honors: Artistic
Best depiction of the Meet a Hero @ Your Library theme
People's choice

Top honors: Culinary
First place:	Second place:	Third place:
Kiley Reed Sweet or Savory (Crepe Paper Book)	Julia Keener Hungry Planet: What the World Eats	Jessica Liu Robinson Mouss-o

Top honors: Literary
First place:	Second place:	Third Place:

Karen Hewitt Leaves of Grass	Molly MacRae The Chard in the Scone	Jonathan Sivier Candy Corneiform

Top honors: Artistic
First place:	Second place:	Third place:

Glen Davies and Sandy Wolf Homage to Giuseppe Arcimboldo	Kathleen Smith Grape Moments in Literary History: Grape Expectations; All Creatures Grape and Small; The Grapes of Wrath; The Grape Escape	Emily Love The Pelican Beef, by John Grisham

Best Depiction of the Meet a Hero @ Your Library Theme	People's Choice (tied)

Sue Searing Profiles in Cabbage (with apologies to JFK)	Karen Hewitt Leaves of Grass	Glen Davies and Sandy Wolf Homage to Giuseppe Arcimboldo


Anonymous Lard of the Rings	Susan Bekiares Death of Ivan Ilyich	Ata Bird Palindromes

Center for Children's Books Blood and Chocolate, by Annette Curtis Klause	Molly Dolan Not Even Books Can Prepare You for Everything	Cathy Fager And I Will Eat Them with a Mouse

Lisa Fager Sword and the Scone	Karen Green Baby Mousse "Our Hero"	Valerie Hotchkiss To Kill a (Tequila) Mockingbird

Samuel Price Hotchkiss The Secret Garden	Julia Kenner Clockwork Orange	M. Kathleen Kern Fly with a Hero

Klara Kim Fahrenheit 451	Klara Kim The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization	Laura Larkin Peter Pan(cakes) with Berries

Molly MacRae Charlotte's Web	Susan Rodgers Call Me Ishmael	Sara Schepis Printer's Case = A Good Book; Some Assembly Required

Molly Scott Honeymoon Scrabble	Claudia & Molly Serbanuta This Book Holds a Story for You (computer & codex)	Steve & Nadja Shoemaker Sam I Am Was Southern

Eleanore Stasheff Knot So Easy to Read (quipu)	Rachel Suntop Taste of Iceland	Yael Taylor Falling Leaves