We are super excited about our kick off event this Sunday, March 28, at Arts at the Armory! The event will be from 4-8pm and there is a lot to look forward to: Vietnam war-era music by The Band That Time Forgot, free food, dancing, and socialzing with community friends. We hope you will spread the word and bring your family and friends with you as we celebrate Somerville Reads!
Arts at the Armory is located at 191 Highland Ave in Somerville. For directions and parking information, please click here.
Have you picked up a copy of The Things They Carried yet? Copies are available for loan at all three libraries in Somerville, including books-on-cd. You can also request them online using your library card. Porter Square Books also has copies for sale, if you'd like to have your own copy. Other goodies to look for - buttons, bookmarks, and a program of events - are all available at the library.
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Building a community of readers
Somerville Reads is a project that promotes literacy and community by encouraging people all over the City to read and discuss books on the same theme. For our third annual program, the subject is food—local, sustainable, delicious!
Somerville Reads Calendar
Spring 2012 Books
Great Books about Food
- Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
- How Bad are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything by Mike Berners-Lee
- In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
- One Fish, Two Fish, Crawfish, Bluefish: The Smithsonian Sustainable Seafood Cookbook by Carole. C. Baldwin
- Plenty: Good, Uncomplicated Food for the Sustainable Kitchen by Diana Henry
- The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution by Alice Waters
- The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
- The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements by Sandor Ellix Katz
- The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food by Ben Hewitt
- Urban Pantry: Tips and Recipes for a Thrifty, Sustainable and Seasonal Kitchen by Amy Pennington
Great Books About Food for Older Kids
- Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson
- The Coming to America Cookbook: Delicious Recipes and Fascinating Stories From America's Many Cultures by Joan D'Amico
- Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Let's Eat!: What Children Eat Around the World by Beatrice Hollyer
- Local Farms and Sustainable Foods by Julia Vogel
- Reducing Your Foodprint: Farming, Cooking, and Eating For a Healthy Planet by Ellen Rodger
- What the World Eats photographed by Peter Menzel; written by Faith D'Aluisio
Great Books About Food for Younger Kids
- 10 Hungry Rabbits: Counting & Color Concepts by Anita Lobel
- And the Good Brown Earth by Kathy Henderson
- Apple Farmer Annie by Monica Wellington
- The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
- Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert
- Gobble It Up!: A Fun Song About Eating by Jim Arnosky
- Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
- Market Day by Carol Foskett Cordsen
- My Garden by Kevin Henkes
- The Secret Life of Food by Clare Crespo
- Soup Day by Melissa Iwai
- Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
- Time to Eat by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
- To Market, To Market by Nikki McClure
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Whose Garden Is It? by Mary Ann Hoberman
2 comments:
I'm glad that Somerville is doing this! Our book group is reading the book (a bunch of moms of elementary-aged kids from Somerville and a few from Cambridge and Arlington. I look forward to attending some of the events, as well as future books.
Thanks Kerri! We really appreciate your support and hope you can attend some of the events. -Beverly
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