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CAJUN NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
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Pelican’s best-selling
children’s picture book,
Cajun Night Before Christmas
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illustrations of the late
James Rice, while a recording of the poem by Tommy Joe Breaux
 (1-56554-189-8, $9.95),
plays in the background.
Visitors
to the walking tour portion of the light display can also purchase books
at Pelican’s booth in the
Broken Egg Café on Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday nights through December 19. And, just in time for Hanukkah,
Gloria Teles Pushker, author of
Toby Belfer Never
Had a Christmas Tree (0-88289-855-8,
$15.95) and other Toby Belfer titles, will be on hand to sign books on
Sunday, December 5, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. |
MORE News on
Gullah expert and author dies:
Illustrators contribute snowflakes to auction:
Janeen Mason, illustrator of
The Pirate, Pink (1-56554-879-5, $15.95) and
On the
Newsstands:
Ozark Night Before Christmas
(1-58980-056-7, $15.95), by Amanda McWilliams,
was pictured in a recent Publishers Weekly article about the rise
in heartland publishing, which observed that Pelican is “among the
publishers whose specialties could no longer be called niche--and whose
reader bases are often larger than those of many New York houses.”
Audubon Plantation Country Cookbook (1- |
CARTOONIST RECEIVES AWARD
HISTORY OF GERMANS IN LOUISIANA IS PUBLISHED:
Germans of Louisiana (1-58980-244-6, $25.00), the new
ANGEL OF SWEETWATER DIES:
NEW COOKBOOK REPRINTED:
Ugelsich’s Restaurant Cookbook
(1-58980-209-8, $24.95), by John Uglesich, which was
published in September, is now in its second printing. MOTHER GOOSE IN LEATHER-BOUND EDITION: The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (0-88289-844-2, $25.95), with a foreword by collector Edward D. Nudleman, is now available in a deluxe leather-bound edition from the Easton Press. This faithful restoration of the renowned American artist’s best-known work features five additional full-color prints. For more information about the leather-bound edition, please visit www.eastonpress.com. |
| What the critics are saying about Pelican titles: | |
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“A whimsical and highly recommended addition.” --Midwest Book Review
Savannah Sketchbook
(1-58980-102-4, $29.95, 1-58980-276-4, $19.95 pb), by
Jeffrey Eley, illustrated
by Savannah college of Art and Design:
“An
amazingly unforgettable tour of a charming American town, blending
talent and love for scenery into a beautiful whole.” |
The Waving Girl (1-58980-185-7, $7.95 pb) by J. B. Nicholas, illustrated by Joanne Waites:
“Waites’s watercolors are pleasingly old-fashioned,
with romantic flair for the scenery and costume
of the times.”
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(0-88289-940-6, $15.95), is
attracting a whole new generation of fans through the animated light
show currently on display at New Orleans’ City Park. The New Orleans
Times-Picayune described it, in a cover article in their weekend
supplement Lagniappe, as “the newest, and one of the most
elaborate, light exhibits in City Park’s traditional Celebration in the
Oaks holiday display.” Spectators are raving about how City Park’s
engineers have brought to life the classic
South Carolina’s Gullah language and one of the
few
people who mastered the art of writing it. In addition to serving as
Gullah consultant for the British
Broadcasting Company on the “Story of the
English Language,” she was also a Gullah instructor at the College of
Charleston, where she received her doctorate in humane letters. Her book
is also available in a recorded audiocassette version (1-56554-396-3,
$9.95).
58980-131-8, $25.00),
by Anne Butler, is reviewed in the latest issue of Mississippi
Magazine, which noted its “careful mixture of old and new yields a
flavor that’s altogether satisfying.” Released this summer, Mrs.
Butler’s cookbook has already be reprinted.
John
R. Rose, cartoonist of “Barney Google and Snuffy Smith,” was honored
on November 17 with the Outstanding Professional
Achievement in the Media award by the Public Relations Council of the
Shenandoah Valley. Mr. Rose was recognized for his work on the King
Features comic strip and as editorial cartoonist for the Harrisonburg
(VA.) Daily News-Record. He has also published four books with
Pelican:
history book by
Ellen C. Merrill, chronicles the heritage and
contributions of German immigrants, once the largest foreign-speaking
ethnic group in Louisiana. Professor Merrill, who received a grant from
the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities to complete her research,
will sign copies at Barnes & Noble in Metairie on December 4 and at B.
Dalton Booksellers in Gretna on December 11. 
Winnie
Cain Corley, known in Gwinnet County, Georgia, as the “Angel of
Sweetwater,” died in September at the age of ninety-one. Throughout her
long life, Mrs. Corley variously worked as a builder, baker, caterer,
and funeral home attendant, but she is best
known for her work preserving local history. The Sweetwater Primitive
Baptist Church, now known as the Sweetwater Memorial Chapel, and the
historic Landers-Cain House are two structures that she saved. Mrs.
Corley was instrumental in providing archival materials to author
Elizabeth Whitley Roberson while she was writing
Jessie
Willcox Smith Mother Goose for Kids