Award Winning Poet E. Haywood Releases There Once Was a Potato, Published by Outskirts Press

Inglewood, CA, February 22, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Poet Ebony Haywood’s award winning poem is now available as a full color illustrated children’s book, There Once Was a Potato, published by self-publishing and book marketing company Outskirts Press. Haywood’s poem placed first in the 1996 NAACP ACT-SO poetry competition and is a playful and imaginative tale of what goes on behind the closed door of a vegetable filled refrigerator.

All has been well in this well stocked refrigerator on Maple Street. Clamatoe Potato has been his usually confident and cocky self, chilling with his friends and enjoying his exalted status among the denizens of the fridge. Then Alakazam Yam, a truly over-sized spud, arrives and the world inside the refrigerator is turned topsy-turvy with the food fight of the century.

Haywood’s rhythmic language and the sprightly, full color illustrations are geared to please any juvenile or any parent reading the entertaining story to their children.

Originally written as a poem, There Was Once a Potato originally won the 1996 NAACP ACT-SO poetry competition in 1996. ACT-SO is the acronym for Academic, Cultural, Technological Scientific Olympics, a year long program designed to recruit, stimulate, improve and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among Afro-American high school students. Haywood’s poem won first place in the poetry competition of the Los Angeles NAACP ACT-SO chapter.

There Was Once a Potato is available on-line in paperback through Amazon and Barnes and Noble and at www.outskirtspress.com/buybooks for a maximum trade discount in quantities of ten or more.

ISBN: 978-1-4327-3871-6 Format: 8.5 x 11 color paperback SRP: $21.95
Genre: Juvenile fiction/readers/beginner

About the author:

Ebony Haywood is a poet living in Los Angeles, California, where she is currently working on her next book.

For more information or to contact the author, visit www.ebonyhaywood.com.

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