Every year the Henry Whittemore Library at Framingham State University has a literary cake decorating contest to celebrate National Library Week!

1. • In Honor of National Library Week, we had our seventh annual “Book-themed” cake
decorating contest. All you had to do was bake a cake and decorate it to represent a scene
or character from a favorite book, be it a beloved children’s book or your favorite adult
book.
• This year we had five cakes entered into the contest
• Anyone that came through the library judged the cakes, by putting a token in the box of the
cake they find to be the best. Judging ran from 9:00am-12:00pm.
• We had 288 patrons participate in the voting/judging of the cakes.
• Winners were announced, and we began cutting into these beautiful creations and shared
them with anyone that came into the café.
• It was a very successful event, and I think all who participated had a good time.
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2. 1st
Place went to:
Cake #5 The Very Hungry Catapillar Decorated by
Samantha Westall –
Curriculum Librarian
with 105 votes
2nd
Place went to:
Cake #1 Mr. Popper’s Penguins Decorated by Robin Kurkomelis – Admin. Asst. Dean of Students Office
with 74 votes
3rd
Place went to:
Cake #2 Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep
Decorated by Colleen Previte – Archivist/Special Collections Librarian and her son Brian.
With 57 votes
Honorable Mention went to:
Cake #3 Harold and the Purple Crayon
Decorated by Children from Centers of Early Childhood Ed - Development Lab – and Valerie Hytolt –
Director of the Labs
With 29 votes

3. All the Cakes waiting for votes

4. 1st
Place went to:
Cake #5 The Very Hungry Catapillar Decorated by
Samantha Westall –
Curriculum Librarian

5. 2nd
Place went to:
Cake #1 Mr. Popper’s Penguins Decorated by Robin
Kurkomelis – Admin. Asst. Dean of Students Office

6. 3rd
Place went to:
Cake #2 Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the
Deep
Decorated by Colleen Previte – Archivist/Special
Collections Librarian and her son Brian.

7. Honorable Mention went to:
Cake #3 Harold and the Purple Crayon
Decorated by Children from Centers of Early Childhood Ed - Development
Lab – and Valerie Hytolt – Director of the Labs

8. Our Fifth cake entry was The Little Prince
Decorated by Maria Lentini
General Asst. to the Curriculum Library

9. Decisions…Decisions…

10. Decisions…Decisions…