Robert's Snow: Blogging for a Cure begins today. It is a muti-blog event put together by Seven Impossible Things to help raise money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to fight cancer. Robert's Snow: For Cancer's Cure is a fundraising event that began in 2004. About 200 illustrators have decorated snowflakes this year. The snowflakes will go up for auction next month. Grace Lin started Robert's Snow while her husband, Robert battled cancer. This year's auction holds special meaning because Robert lost his battle with cancer a few months ago.
Since 2004, Robert's Snow has raised over 200,000. This year, The Seven Imps organized this blog event to help drive web traffic to the Robert's Snow: For Cancer's Cure site.
And we all hope that Blogging for a Cure will help make this year's Robert's Snow: For Cancer's Cure bigger than ever.

So, here's the schedule for the first week, highlighting illustrators and the snowflakes they contributed to this year's auction.

Monday, October 15

• Randy Cecil at ChatRabbit


• Michelle Chang at The Longstockings


• Kevin Hawkes at Cynthia Lord's Journal


• Barbara Lehman at The Excelsior File


• Grace Lin at In the Pages

Tuesday, October 16

• Selina Alko at Brooklyn Arden


• Scott Bakal at Wild Rose Reader


• Alexandra Boiger at Paradise Found


• Paige Keiser at Your Neighborhood Librarian


• Janet Stevens at The Miss Rumphius Effect

Wednesday, October 17

• Rick Chrustowski at laurasalas


• Diane DeGroat at Jama Rattigan's Alphabet Soup


• Ilene Richard at Something Different Every Day


• Brie Spangler at Lectitans


• Don Tate at The Silver Lining

Thursday, October 18

• Brooke Dyer at Bookshelves of Doom


• D.B. Johnson at Lessons from the Tortoise


• Erin Eitter Kono at Sam Riddleburger


• Sherry Rogers at A Life in Books


• Jennifer Thermes at Through the Studio Door

Friday, October 19

• Graeme Base at Just One More Book


• Denise Fleming at MotherReader


• Jeff Mack at AmoXcalli


• Jeff Newman at A Year of Reading


• Ruth Sanderson at Book Moot

Saturday, October 20

• Linas Alsenas at A Wrung Sponge


• Theresa Brandon at The Shady Glade


• Karen Katz at Whimsy Books


• Judy Schachner at Kate's Book Blog


• Sally Vitsky at Shelf Elf: read, write, rave

Sunday, October 21

• Matthew Cordell at Just Like the Nut


• Maxwell Eaton III at Books and Other Thoughts


• Roz Fulcher at Goading the Pen


• Susie Jin at sruble's world


• Susan Mitchell at Check It Out

Please take time out to visit all of these blogs, and read about these fabulous illustrators. And, if you're so inclined, think about bidding for a snowflake in the Robert's Snow auction. Each snowflake makes a unique gift (for yourself or for someone else), and supports an important cause.