Children's book characters on snail mail

Have you seen these brilliant new postage stamps featuring some of our favorite children's book animals?

Best Books of Indiana Competition 2005-2006

Time is running out to enter nominations for this Indiana Center for the Book competition. Go to The Indiana State Library web site to find the entry form. Four copies of the book must be sent along with the entry form by March 3, 2006.

International Edible Book Festival

This is a fun idea! The Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis is hosting a special event called the International Edible Book Festival. This unusual book/culinary/artistic event will take place on Saturday, April 1, 2006. "The festival challenges bibliophiles of all ages to illustrate their favorite tales using food." Go to the Eiteljorg Museum's web site for examples and for more about this event and the festival.

Katrina Report

The 379 page report on Katrina, A Failure of Initiative: The Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina, is available at http://katrina.house.gov/.

Mastodons on Parade book

Mastodons on Parade: Fort Wayne's Community Art Project 2005 is available at several library locations. This book covers the project with vivid photo documentation.

With the success of Mastodons on Parade and with talks such as the Percent for Art program at the Fort Wayne Museum on Art recently, plans for Art on East Main from April 26-May 8... there is so much to be excited about the arts in the Fort.