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Indie Bound                                                                September 2008
Greetings,
As the economy staggers, gas (and shipping) prices soar, and we worry about tomorrow and our children's tomorrow, many of us are reminded of the benefits of supporting local independent businesses and locally grown foods. Shopping at locally owned independent businesses keeps the money in our community rather than sending it to some distant headquarters. To this end we have joined with other indepenent booksellers and independent businesses to share information with each other and with you, and to make independent businesses strong. Please join us in this endeavor. Shop locally. Stop in the Co-op for more information.


                                                                   Suzy

Autumn Readings & Talks
We will be adding more events throughout the semester so be sure to check back for updates.


 
David ShannonNoted Children's Author & Illustrator David Shannon
David Shannon is the internationally acclaimed creator of more than twenty picture books, including No, David! a Caldecott Honor Book, and its two sequels, David Gets in Trouble and David Goes to School, and the bestsellers Alice the Fairy; Good Boy Fergus; A Bad Case of Stripes; and How I Became a Pirate. David Shannon and his family live in Southern California. In his newest picture book, Too Many Toys, Shannon proves that an
entertaining story and your own imagination are the very best toys of all. Kirkus Reviews raves,  "Shannon's sardonic wit will strike a chord with parents and children alike."


Wednesday, October 1, at 2:00 pm
John Bell on American Puppetry
Thursday, October 2,  6:30 pm

JohnBellJohn Bell is the Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and  He is a puppeteer and theatre historian who started his performance work as a member of Bread and Puppet Theater and is a founding member of Great Small Works.  He is the author of American Puppet Modernism: Essays on the Material World in Performance. Joel Schechter, Editor of Popular Theatre writes,  "The modernist puppet theatre's movement, from indigenous rituals to the Little Theatres to large political protests, proves to be a fascinating subject, which Bell animates with the expert knowledge, precision, and colorful details one expects from a master puppeteer and a leading scholar."

   Plant a Tree for Every Book You Read

We are participating with Eco-Libris in their program to balance out the 20 mllion trees cut down for books. Actually, books are one of the most recycled objects in the US -- people do not throw books away, they pass them on, resell them, donate them, keep them or trade them. Nevertheless, we need to everything we can for this earth of ours. So, if you choose to participate, which you can when you purcahse a book at the Co-op, you can  donate a dollar to Eco-Libris for each book you purchase and they will plant a tree.



 



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Suzy Staubach
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