Robert's Snow: Blogging for a Cure

Robert's Snow: Blogging for a Cure begins today. It is a muti-blog event put together by Seven Impossible Things to help raise money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to fight cancer. Robert's Snow: For Cancer's Cure is a fundraising event that began in 2004. About 200 illustrators have decorated snowflakes this year. The snowflakes will go up for auction next month.

Grace Lin started Robert's Snow while her husband, Robert battled cancer. This year's auction holds special meaning because Robert lost his battle with cancer a few months ago.

Since 2004, Robert's Snow has raised over 200,000. This year, The Seven Imps organized this blog event to help drive web traffic to the Robert's Snow: For Cancer's Cure site. And we all hope that Blogging for a Cure will help make this year's Robert's Snow: For Cancer's Cure bigger than ever.

So, here's the schedule for the first week, highlighting illustrators and the snowflakes they contributed to this year's auction.

Monday, October 15

Randy Cecil at ChatRabbit
Michelle Chang at The Longstockings
Kevin Hawkes at Cynthia Lord's Journal
Barbara Lehman at The Excelsior File
Grace Lin at In the Pages

Tuesday, October 16

Selina Alko at Brooklyn Arden
Scott Bakal at Wild Rose Reader
Alexandra Boiger at Paradise Found
Paige Keiser at Your Neighborhood Librarian
Janet Stevens at The Miss Rumphius Effect

Wednesday, October 17

Rick Chrustowski at laurasalas
Diane DeGroat at Jama Rattigan's Alphabet Soup
Ilene Richard at Something Different Every Day
Brie Spangler at Lectitans
Don Tate at The Silver Lining

Thursday, October 18

Brooke Dyer at Bookshelves of Doom
D.B. Johnson at Lessons from the Tortoise
Erin Eitter Kono at Sam Riddleburger
Sherry Rogers at A Life in Books
Jennifer Thermes at Through the Studio Door

Friday, October 19

Graeme Base at Just One More Book
Denise Fleming at MotherReader
Jeff Mack at AmoXcalli
Jeff Newman at A Year of Reading
Ruth Sanderson at Book Moot

Saturday, October 20

Linas Alsenas at A Wrung Sponge
Theresa Brandon at The Shady Glade
Karen Katz at Whimsy Books
Judy Schachner at Kate's Book Blog
Sally Vitsky at Shelf Elf: read, write, rave

Sunday, October 21

Matthew Cordell at Just Like the Nut
Maxwell Eaton III at Books and Other Thoughts
Roz Fulcher at Goading the Pen
Susie Jin at sruble's world
Susan Mitchell at Check It Out

Please take time out to visit all of these blogs, and read about these fabulous illustrators. And, if you're so inclined, think about bidding for a snowflake in the Robert's Snow auction. Each snowflake makes a unique gift (for yourself or for someone else), and supports an important cause.