Author Signings and Noteworthy Events

Kathleen Calhoun Nettleton, director of Promotions at Pelican, was interviewed for the February 2006 issue of Book Business. Mrs. Nettleton discussed how Hurricane Katrina impacted Pelican’s employees and business structure and provided useful tips on how to keep the lines of communications open after natural disasters cause setbacks in business.
 

With hopes of restocking the home libraries of New Orleans listeners, WWNO, a local New Orleans radio station, and the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association have compiled a list of twenty-five "classic New Orleans books" for the station to donate to radio callers. The collection includes three titles from Pelican Publishing, Time and Place in New Orleans: Past Geographies in Present Day (9781565549913), by Richard Campanella, Etouffée, Mon Amour: The Great Restaurants of New Orleans (9781565549265), by Kerri McCaffety, and Moon’s Cloud Blanket (9781565549227)--a Houma Indian tale about surviving flooding--by Rose Anne St. Romain.

Author Joe Novara will be at Barnes and Noble in Tampa, Florida, on March 4 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. reading from his book, Wa-Tonka! Camp Cowboys (9781589803541). Novara, who included a useful study guide in his book, will discuss the importance of reading and writing with children.

Jude W. Theriot will be at the Market Basket on Nelson Road in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on Saturday, March 4, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and will cook two of his favorite recipes from The 100 Greatest Cajun Recipes (9781589803053). Chef Theriot will sign his cookbook before and after the cooking demonstration.

The Joliet Young Author Conference will be held on March 11 in Joliet, Illinois. The theme of this year’s event is "Reach for the world--READ." Author Steven L. Layne and illustrator Chuck Galey are giving multiple presentations about their book, My Brother Dan’s Delicious (9781589800717), a story about how Joey convinces monsters that his brother Dan would make a tastier supper than he.

Author Ann Parr and illustrator Kathryn Breidenthal will be promoting the release of Gordon Parks: No Excuses (9781589804111) with a book signing at Watermark Books in Wichita, Kansas, on Sunday, March 12, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. In addition to the narrative and black-and-white illustrations, the book features many of Gordon Parks’ most famous photographs.

The Illinois Reading Conference will take place from March 15 to March 18 in Springfield, Illinois. Steven L. Layne, the president of the Illinois Reading Council and the author of numerous Pelican titles, including his newest release, Mergers (9781589801837), will attend. Also attending will be Frank Blazek, author of Phil and His Fabulous Feathers (9781589802803), and Laura Crawford, author of The Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving from A to Z (9781589802384).

In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Memphis, Tennessee, is hosting author James Cantrell, who will be signing How Celtic Culture Invented Southern Literature (9781589803305) from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on March 16.

Richard Jones, author of Supper at Richard’s Place: Recipes from the New Southern Table (9781589802995), and Ben Smith, author of Tsunami Restaurant Cookbook (9781589802827), have been selected to participate in The Book and The Cook Festival in Philadelphia from March 17 to March 26. This year Jack’s Firehouse Restaurant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will host Richard Jones, and Meridith’s Restaurant in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, will host Ben Smith.

The first signing for David Davis’s newest release, Texas Zeke and the Longhorn (9781589803480), is scheduled for Saturday, March 18, at Brystone’s Children’s Books in Watauga, Texas. Storytime is at 10:30 a.m. and book signings begin at 12:30 p.m.

Pelican Publishing is proud to announce that artwork from Feliciana Feydra Leroux: A Cajun Tall Tale (9781589802865), illustrated by Cat Bowman Smith and written by Tynia Thomassie, will be a part of This Land Is Our Land: Discovering America and the World through Original Illustrations from Children’s Books. The illustrations representing the state of Louisiana will be on display at the Meridian Cafritz Galleries in Washington, D.C. The exhibit continues through April 30, 2006.

The Louisiana Library Conference will be held from March 28 to March 30 at the Cajundome in Lafayette, Louisiana. The following authors will be signing on Wednesday, March 29: Debra West Smith, author of Hattie Marshall and the Prowling Panther (9781565549401), Sheila Hébert-Collins, author of Jean-Paul Hébert Was There (9781565549289), Deborah Ousley Kadair, author of Grandma’s Gumbo (9781589801332), James Bollich, author of Bataan Death March: A Soldier’s Story (9781589801677), and Beverly Barras Vidrine, author of Easter Day Alphabet (9781589800762). On Thursday, March 30, there will be signings by Cecilia Casrill Dartez, author of Jenny Giraffe Discovers the French Quarter (9780882898193), Rose Anne St. Romain, author of Moon’s Cloud Blanket (9781565549227), and Beverly Barras Vidrine.

NEW ON THE ACCELERATED READER LIST

The Jade Stone: A Chinese Folktale (9781589803596), adapted by Caryn Yacowitz with illustrations by Ju-Hong Chen.  A Chinese folktale about a stone carver who disobeys the emperor of China but remains true to himself and his art. Innovative artwork and the coinciding message of artistic integrity make this book a gem for any library.

Praise for Pelican titles:

"The colorful and both dreamlike and photographically realistic landscapes and cityscapes created by Golden . . . are reproduced in full-page color plates of excellent quality." --Book News, Inc.

"This immense book features one hundred ninety-six color illustrations that range from his trademark melancholy landscapes to social commentary of demolition sites, from rural Louisiana to puzzles of modern cityscapes."

--The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, LA)

Two Longs and a Short: An Ozark Boyhood Remembered (9781589802018), by Phillip W. Steele:

"If the blackberry patch brings back memories, you will like this book." --Small Farm Today

Tsunami Restaurant Cookbook (9781589802827), by

"Smith shares his food know-how [with] more than 150 usable recipes, from scallop cerviche to Asian chicken salad with sesame dressing to a mellow avocado ice cream."

--Lakeland Newspapers (IL)

Ghost Hunter’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area (9781589802896), by Jeff Dwyer:

"Ghost stories in the area chronicled in Dwyer’s book . . . while sometimes scary, they more often serve as reminders of the sometimes quirky, and oftentimes tragically haunting, history of the people of California."

 --The Reporter.com (Vacaville, CA)

Christmas Past (9781589803565), by Barbara Hallman Kissinger:

"Very educational about how other countries have celebrated Christmas and how some of those customs are now part of how Americans celebrate. This is a good book for parents or grandparents to read and explain to children. 

--The Roanoke Times

Richmond’s Wartime Hospitals (9781589802971), by Rebecca Barbour Calcutt:

"Calcutt has found some interesting--if stomach-churning--first-person accounts of life in the hospitals, which never had enough medical supplies or food . . . gives a behind-the-scenes look at what was happening in the Confederacy behind the lines." 

--Civil War News

Confederate Women (9781589801868), edited by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn:

"An affecting reminder that Southern women faced the challenges of the wartime era with courage and determination." 

--Civil War News

The Warlord’s Kites (9781589801806), by Virginia Walton Pilegard with illustrations by Nicolas Debon:

"Recommended to libraries that want to increase their multicultural collection."

--Lupe Callihan, Howard Elementary, Eugene, Oregon School District

Louisiana’s Italians, Food, Recipes, and Folkways (9781589803183), by Nancy Tregre Wilson:

"Sure to appeal to those interested in history and in local traditional Italian food."

--Baton Rouge Advocate

Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border (9781589803299), by Donald L. Gilmore:

"Unlike many other books about warfare along the Kansas-Missouri border before and during the Civil War, Gilmore’s book focuses on depredations committed by Jayhawkers and the ‘red legs’, Kansas raiders identified by their red gaiters, as well as raids by Missourians into Kansas." 

--Topeka Capital-Journal

"Offers recipes for the good life, Crescent City style." 

--Susan Larson, The Times-Picayune

General James G. Blunt: Tarnished Glory (9781589802537), by Robert Collins:

"Collins has provided a valuable service in rescuing this difficult, crusty character from oblivion and filling a gap in the historical record." 

--The Wichita Eagle

Step Up! A Mackinac Island Tale (9781589802148), by Cathe Hahn and illustrated by Bob Artley:

"Step Up! will remain with the readers as a gentle memory. The full-page watercolor illustrations evoke the past of this Michigan island when time was not hurried."

--Bloomsbury Review

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