[Libs-Or] Oregon Center for the Book Selects Two Books for the 2025 Roadmap to Reading

Tue Aug 5 13:42:06 PDT 2025

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Contact:              Jen Robinson
Director, Oregon Center for the Book
                              503-378-5391

Date:                   August 5, 2025

Leslie Barnard Booth's One Day This Tree Will Fall and Elizabeth Mehren's I Lived to Tell the World: Stories from
Survivors of Holocaust, Genocide, and the Atrocities of War were each selected to represent Oregon at the 2025
National Book Festival in Washington, DC.

Every year, the Library of Congress asks each state Center for the Book to select titles that represent the state's
literary landscape to highlight at the National Book Festival, an event showcasing the importance of books and
reading. This year the National Book Festival will be held September 6, 2025. Read more at https://www.loc.gov/bookfest/.

The 2025 Oregon Young Readers' Selection is Leslie Barnard Booth's One Day This Tree Will Fall; illustrated by
Stephanie Fizer Coleman. This lyrical non-fiction picture book shares the long and winding life cycle of a tree in
a forest: from tiny seed to a decaying home for animals and plants. Author Leslie Barnard Booth grew up in the
Pacific Northwest, attended Pomona College and later earned an MFA in creative writing and an MS in education
from the University of Oregon. Leslie lives in Portland, Oregon, and loves exploring the natural world with her family.

The 2025 Oregon Adult Readers' Selection is Elizabeth Mehren's I Lived to Tell the World: Stories from Survivors of
Holocaust, Genocide, and the Atrocities of War. I Lived to Tell the World features thirteen inspiring profiles of men
and women who have endured unthinkable cruelty, only to resume productive lives in their new homes in Oregon.

Elizabeth Mehren is a Portland-based writer, editor, and educator. Mehren earned undergraduate and graduate
degrees at UC Berkeley and has written for national magazines, appeared on television and radio, and received
awards for teaching and journalism. After working at The Washington Post, she became a national correspondent
for the Los Angeles Times and later spent a decade on the faculty at Boston University.

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