Writers Unite to Fight Cancer will participate in the Spring for a Cure Festival to help a three year old who is blind in one eye despite thirteen months chemotherapy for Neurofibromatosis. This disease caused a brain tumor on his optical nerve. Saturday, March 5th, 2011 from 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM the Spring for a Cure Festival will be hosted by his mother, Britney Oden to benefit the Children’s Tumor Foundation (CTF). CTF researches Neurofibromatosis (NF). Neurofibromatosis is the term for three distinct genetic disorders which cause tumors to grow on any nerve in your body. NF affects both sexes and all races and ethnic groups equally, and is more prevalent than cystic fibrosis, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and Huntington’s disease combined. There is no cure for NF.
Writers Unite to Fight Cancer authors that will participate in the Spring for the Cure Festival are donating one dollar ($1.00) from each book sold at this family fun event to CTF in Kyle Oden’s name. Join the fun and help a worthy cause at the First United Methodist Church Parking Lot on 15 East First Avenue in Mesa, AZ 85210.
Carrie Goodfellow is the author and illustrator of What Can You Do When It’s 102°? an educational children’s picture book, the first in the series starring the Peccary Family, javelinas who live in Arizona’s high desert. It is a charming counting and rhyming story depicting the various activities desert dwellers engage in to beat the heat.
Cindy R. Williams is the author of CHASE MCKAY DIDN’T GET UP TODAY, finalist for the Southwest Book Award and the Arizona Glyph Award. It is a great book for parents and grandparents to share with little ones. The delightful illustrations are by artist, Donald Jenny.
Dorian Tether is the author and illustrator of THE PELICAN AND THE WHALE: a Children’s Poem is a “Jonah and the Whale” type adventure about faith. She also wrote and illustrated When the Coyote Howls an educational and visual experience where art, language, and science come together.
Louise Laughlin wrote I MUST BE DREAMING, a memoir her husband Larry which includes his tour in Viet Nam and battle with esophageal cancer. Her fun children’s books were illustrated by Kathy Brady. LIBBY’S VACATION a dog story and SANTA GOES SHOPPING – Santa gets caught in a department store.
Margaret Turley is a registered nurse and author of SAVE THE CHILD. The novel is about one family’s struggle to win the battle with cancer and save their daughter. This contemporary medical-legal drama portrays the importance of parents rights to make decisions concerning their children’s medical care.
Join us to help this important cause.
My heart bleeds for this family whose medical problems are far above what I’ve ever experienced, and I want to help. Can I bring Lolly’s Yarn to sell and donate? I don’t know how I missed knowing about this earlier, but I did. As I’ve told you before, Margaret, I so admire you for your great compassion and your ability to organize and get things done.
Thank you for contributing to the cause.
Your help was greatly appreciated and I gave one of the your books to the little boy.
Margaret