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Earlier this week we featured the first-place winners of the 2018 Edible Book Festival, and here are the cakes that took home second in each category! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory received second for Best in Show, A Midsummer's Night Dream for Best Effort, Alice in Wonderland for Best Literary Theme, The Walking Dead for Most Delicious, and Fire and Fury for Funniest! Congratulations to all our bakers, and check out our last post to see more cakes!

Here are the winning cakes of the 2018 Edible Book Festival! Paddington Bear received first for Best in Show, Devil in the White City for Best Effort, Fahrenheit 451 for Best Literary Theme, Where the Wild Things Are for Most Delicious, and Game of Thrones for Funniest! Congratulations to all our winners!

Be it dough or Jello, we know your literary dessert will make a splash! Register today!

We are so fortunate to have the Dorothy McIvain Scott Collection at #jhulibraries. The #Baltimore philanthropist collected beautifully gilded and painted covers and foreedges. This #foreedgefriday depicts #Badminton House in #Gloucestershire painted onto a copy of The Pleasures of Memory by Samuel Rogers. Check out the entire collection on our Flickr! . . . #rarebooks #booklovers #igreads #librariesofinstagram

This week's #miniaturemonday is a very special #matchbox version of Robinson Crusoe published in London as apart of A. Treherne & Co.'s "Matchless Books" collection #jhulibraries #20thcentury #tinybooks #disguisedbook #rarebooks #booklover #igreads #london #english #robinsoncrusoe #adventure

Unlock the taste sensation of The Secret Garden, a lovely cake at our 2016 edible book festival!

Still undecided about submitting a dessert to our festival? Well, just look at some of our prize sponsors.  Pretty tempting indeed!

Care to participate? There is still plenty of time! You and your friends can enter your own literary culinary masterpiece here.