Michelle Obama to publish her first book

Inspirational, and what's more, it's about gardening

Jason Boog of GalleyCat @ mediabistro.com, reports that Michelle Obama's  American Grown: How the White House Kitchen Garden Inspires Families, Schools, and Communities will be luanched by Crown Publishers next April. The four-color hardcover is the first book written by the First Lady.

Mrs. Obama will not earn an advance for the book, and plans “to donate all net or after-tax author proceeds to a charity or charities to be named later.” Crown Publishing Group publisher Maya Mavjee made the announcement today.

Here’s more about the book: “Through telling the story of the White House kitchen garden, Mrs. Obama will explore in American Grown how increased access to healthy, affordable food can promote better eating habits and improve health of families and communities across America. Mrs. Obama will describe how her daughters Sasha and Malia were catalysts for change in her own family’s eating behavior, which inspired Mrs. Obama to plant an edible garden on the South Lawn – the first since Eleanor Roosevelt’s ‘Victory Garden’ planted during World War II. The book will be inspirational and instructive and will provide ideas and resources for readers to get involved in the movement to create community, school, and urban gardens, support local farmers’ markets, and make small lifestyle changes to achieve big health results.”