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The Literacy Council of Prince
George's County ended October on a sweet note with more than
100 supporters gathering at Barnes & Noble – Bowie Town
Center as Kake Korner’s cupcakes; local authors
Jill Cloud,
Erica Kennedy,
Hollis Lashley, Urenna Okoye, and Gabrielle Williams;
and avid readers Gayle Cox, Notashia Thomas, Dr. Talita
Jordan-Miller, Nurse Sharrief McGee, and Dr. Jackie Martin
took their places at center stage for our fall 2011 Sweet
Reads events.
One-part book discussion and
one-part dessert sampling, Sweet Reads is a series of
intimate gatherings designed to celebrate a passion for
reading and a penchant for sweets. The October Sweet
Reads events featured discussions including candid parenting
advice with Jill Cloud, author of the forthcoming How to
Raise A Doctor: Leading Them To Their Promised Land Without
Losing Yourself Along the Way; life-lessons gleaned by
three medical "divas" from the pages of My Mother's
Rules, The Poisonwood Bible, and The Shack;
and encouraging an early love of reading and writing with
child authors
Urenna Okoye (9),
Gabrielle Williams (11) and their moms.
Kake Korner, the Laurel-based
bakery, provided more than 120 cupcakes for the five Sweet
Reads events held between October 16 and October 22. The
icing on the cake, however, was the support that was
raised for the Literacy Council -- with Barnes & Noble
donating a percentage of in-store and online sales that week
and new volunteers pledging to seize opportunities to
promote adult literacy in Prince George's County.
To learn more about how you can support adult literacy,
please visit
www.literacycouncil.org/give. |
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