December 29, 2004
December 29, 2004
LANSING – Governor Jennifer M. Granholm and Texas Governor Rick Perry today agreed to a friendly wager on the 2005 Rose Bowl, with Granholm predicting that the University of Michigan Wolverines will emerge victorious over the University of Texas Longhorns in the game to be played this coming Saturday in Pasadena, California.
"The State of Michigan will be chanting ‘Go Blue’ when the Wolverines take to the field on New Year’s Day," Granholm said. "We are behind the Wolverines 100 percent and predict they will have a decisive victory over the Longhorns."
As part of the wager, Governor Granholm – whose top priority is education – has chosen to offer a collection of Michigan-specific children’s books published and donated by the Washtenaw County-based Sleeping Bear Press in honor of the University of Michigan. Among the titles that will be included in the collection are:
M is for Mitten: A Michigan Alphabet - by Kathy jo Wargin/Annie Appleford and illustrated by Michael Glenn Monroe
The Michigan Counting Book - by Kathy jo Wargin and illustrated by Michael Glenn Monroe
Legend of the Petoskey Stone - by Kathy jo Wargin and illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen
Legend of Sleeping Bear - by Kathy jo Wargin and illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen (official children’s book of Michigan 1998)
Legend of Mackinac Island - by Kathy jo Wargin and illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen
Legend of Leelanau - by Kathy jo Wargin and illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen
The Edmund Fitzgerald: Song of the Bell - by Kathy jo Wargin and illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen
Governor Perry has offered two boxes of Texas citrus fruit. The winning Governor will designate a charity of their choice to receive both the fruit and children’s books.
Sleeping Bear Press, based in Chelsea, Michigan, is a national publisher of regional books with a positive message for children, as well as the adults who read them aloud in schools and libraries and each night at bedtime.
