First Lady plans to write book about White House's garden
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March 18, 2011, Friday
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THERE'S a new author in the White House: Michelle Obama.
The first lady has signed with Crown Publishing Group for a book about the garden she started on the South Lawn of the White House and the benefits of healthy eating. The book, currently untitled, is scheduled to come out in April 2012. Obama received no advance and will donate all proceeds to a charity or charities to be determined.
The White House said the garden has yielded more than 2,000 pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables.
"We've gotten food out of the garden, and we can eat it and it's good," Obama said on Wednesday. "So we wanted to share the story with the rest of the nation and perhaps with the rest of the world, because we get so many questions about the garden: How did we do it? Why did we do it? How do I do this in my own home or community?"
The first lady, 47, has been an advocate for locally grown food and last year started an anti-obesity campaign, "Let's Move!" According to Crown, the book will be "inspirational and instructive, and will provide ideas and resources for readers to get involved in the movement to create community, school and urban gardens, support local farmers' markets, and make small lifestyle changes to achieve big health results.
"Mrs Obama will also share some of her family's favorite healthy recipes."
Editions will include an -illustrated hardcover, an e-book and an "enhanced" multimedia e-book.
"I hope it will be a beautiful book, as well, something that everyone can take something away from," Obama said. "Maybe if you're a local gardener yourself, you'll be drawn by the pictures of the ... garden in its various stages throughout the seasons. If you're a kid, maybe you'll pick up the book and read along with your -teachers, and look at how we've -incorporated young people in our garden."
Obama is continuing a tradition of first ladies using books to address a favorite cause. Hillary Clinton had a best-seller with "It Takes a Village," about the importance of community in raising children; and Laura Bush collaborated with daughter Jenna on a picture book about a reluctant reader, the popular "Read All About It!" This is Michelle Obama's first book and she said she had begun working on it. "I don't know why I'm not really nervous about it. Maybe I don't know enough to be nervous yet," she remarked.
President Obama, is expected to help with the book.
The first lady has signed with Crown Publishing Group for a book about the garden she started on the South Lawn of the White House and the benefits of healthy eating. The book, currently untitled, is scheduled to come out in April 2012. Obama received no advance and will donate all proceeds to a charity or charities to be determined.
The White House said the garden has yielded more than 2,000 pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables.
"We've gotten food out of the garden, and we can eat it and it's good," Obama said on Wednesday. "So we wanted to share the story with the rest of the nation and perhaps with the rest of the world, because we get so many questions about the garden: How did we do it? Why did we do it? How do I do this in my own home or community?"
The first lady, 47, has been an advocate for locally grown food and last year started an anti-obesity campaign, "Let's Move!" According to Crown, the book will be "inspirational and instructive, and will provide ideas and resources for readers to get involved in the movement to create community, school and urban gardens, support local farmers' markets, and make small lifestyle changes to achieve big health results.
"Mrs Obama will also share some of her family's favorite healthy recipes."
Editions will include an -illustrated hardcover, an e-book and an "enhanced" multimedia e-book.
"I hope it will be a beautiful book, as well, something that everyone can take something away from," Obama said. "Maybe if you're a local gardener yourself, you'll be drawn by the pictures of the ... garden in its various stages throughout the seasons. If you're a kid, maybe you'll pick up the book and read along with your -teachers, and look at how we've -incorporated young people in our garden."
Obama is continuing a tradition of first ladies using books to address a favorite cause. Hillary Clinton had a best-seller with "It Takes a Village," about the importance of community in raising children; and Laura Bush collaborated with daughter Jenna on a picture book about a reluctant reader, the popular "Read All About It!" This is Michelle Obama's first book and she said she had begun working on it. "I don't know why I'm not really nervous about it. Maybe I don't know enough to be nervous yet," she remarked.
President Obama, is expected to help with the book.
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