The Michigan Center for the Book announces the following grant recipients for 2009. Information on 2010 grant opportunities will be available in November 2009.

2009 Grant Recipients

• Bayliss Public Library - Curious Creatures with Unkle Ake Larson - June 2009.
• Chesterfield Township Library - Giggle Poetry Concert with Bruce Lansky - February 23, 2009.
• *Genesee District Library - Meet the Author with Juan Williams - April 17, 2009.
• *Grand Rapids Public Library - Celebration of the Book - October 10, 2009.
• *Hillsdale Community Library - Hillsdale County Reads Jeannette Wall's The Glass Castle - March 2009.
• *Howell Carnegie District Library - Livington Reads The Final Season and All the Stars Came Out That Night with Tom Stanton and Kevin King - March through May 2009.
• Ironwood Carnegie Library - The Big Read 2009 with The Maltese Falcon - March 2009.
• Kalamazoo Public Library - Reading Together Reads Rick Bragg's Memoirs of Home - April 14, 2009.
• Kalkaska County Library - An Evening with Joe Heywood - May 2009.
• *Metro Net Library Consortium - Everyone's Reading Diane Rehm's Finding My Voice - February through March 2009.
• *Peter White Public Library - Once Upon a Time, a fairy tale series for children and their families - February through June 2009.
• *Southfield Public Library - Authors @ Your Library with Bernice McFadden - May 2009.

* - Michigan Center for the Book affiliates.

For more information, contact

Karren Reish
Michigan Center for the Book Coordinator
reishk@michigan.gov
(517) 241-0021.

Updated 02/10/2009