Presented by the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Please join in helping celebrate this year's Washington State Book Awards. Winners and finalists, friends, fans, and readers are all invited to this annual award ceremony and reception which follows. This year's recipients include two Olympia writers: novelist Jim Lynch, author of Border Songs (Knopf/Vintage); and poet Lucia Perillo, author of Inseminating the Elephant (Copper Canyon Press). Other adult book award-winners, in non-fiction, include Seattle writer and New York Times opinion page contributor/blogger Timothy Egan, author of The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt); and Bellingham-based New York Times Science Times journalist Carol Kaesuk Yoon, author of Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science (W.W. Norton). The Scandiuzzi Children's Book Awards were given to three books this year: Before You Were Born Here, Mi Amor (Viking Children's Books), by Bellevue author Samantha Vamos, illustrated by Santiago Cohen; The Magical Ms. Plum (Knopf), by Seattle's Bonny Becker, illustrated by Amy Portnoy; and a young adult novel, Brutal (Knopf), by Spokane writer Michael Harmon. Free admission is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison and Spring). For more information, please see www.spl.org or call (206) 386-4636.