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Duke in Pictures: Edible Books

Library contest brings out culinary tributes to the book

Visitors to the Duke University Libraries annual Edible Book Festival spent Wednesday checking out the entries in the Perkins Library Gothic Reading Room.

 

During the festival, participants used their creativity to create an object made of edible material that represented a book title or book object.

 

The contest winners are:

 

Most Edible: Night by Judy Bailey

 

Least Edible: A Brief History of Thyme by Bridget Booher

 

Puniest: War and Peas by Amy Turner

 

Best Book Structure: Vellum Binding by Meg Brown

 

Best Student Entry: The Little Engine that Could by Hannah Reynolds and Bernadette O'Reilly

 

Most Overall Votes: The Little Engine that Could by Hannah Reynolds and Bernadette O'Reilly

 

Favorite Overall: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Sarah Hodkinson

 

A silent auction was also held to raise funds for the Duke University

 

Libraries Memorial Fund. The Duke University Libraries Preservation

 

Department and the annual International Edible Book Festival sponsored the event.

 

Below, Nelda Webb, photographs "The Little Engine that Could." (Photos by Megan Morr)

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