It’s November and it’s time for Robert’s Snow
Being that November has rolled around (where do the years go), I wanted to include a post recommending that everyone go check out Robert’s Snow (also Robert’s Snowflakes), the related illustrated snowflakes, and the story behind both the book and the snowflakes.
Grace Lin’s Robert’s Snow exists due to her support of her husband, Robert Mercer, throughout his battle with cancer. The press release tells the story behind Robert’s Snow better than I ever could, so I pasted the main piece of it here (view the press release for a more-detailed account):
Just after getting married, her [Grace Lin’s] husband Robert Mercer was diagnosed with sarcoma, a cancer of the soft tissue and bone. While Mercer was receiving treatment, Lin told him a bedside story about a mouse that couldn’t go outside to play in the snow. The story grew into a children’s book, titled “Robert’s Snow.” When Lin was finishing the artwork for the book, her husband had a relapse, so her colleagues rallied to create Robert’s Snow: for Cancer’s Cure to increase awareness about sarcoma and to raise research funding. Mercer passed away in August 2007, but Robert’s Snow: for Cancer’s Cure continues as a legacy to his life.
The three 2007 Robert’s Snow auctions are to be held online on the following dates:
Since 2004, children’s book illustrators have been creating unique snowflakes to raise money for sarcoma research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Everywhere you click in the KidLit Blogosphere (for example, view Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast’s Blogging for a Cure 2007 page for A LOT more detail), you can read interviews with Robert’s Snow snowflake illustrators–these “Blogging for the Cure” interviews and reviews provide more details about the illustrator’s works and the snowflakes that they have designed.
Robert’s Snow and the related snowflakes are testaments to the strength of the human spirit and to the generosity of humanity. To be a part of blogging/bidding in the fight against cancer and to own a piece of art from your favorite children’s book illustrator, don’t miss the auctions and/or Grace Lin’s children’s books.
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