September 2009 Archives

Visions: Dorina Lazo Gilmore Reads at the Tamejavi Festival

By
Renee Ting
on September 30, 2009 3:07 PM |
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Dorina Lazo Gilmore reading Cora Cooks Pancit at the Tamejavi Festival in Fresno, CA on Septebmer 19. 

Burnt Lumpia Features Cora

By
Renee Ting
on September 29, 2009 1:54 PM |
Burnt Lumpia is a blog about Filipino culture and, more importantly, food! Last week, Marvin of Burnt Lumpia featured Cora Cooks Pancit on the blog, including interior shots and everything. The children's book inspired Marvin to take a stroll down memory lane, and also to look into the future:

Now, as a new parent myself, I can only hope that my little one will some day show a curiosity in the cultural dishes I prepare in our own kitchen. Luckily, his curiosity is getting a head start whenever I read him Cora Cooks Pancit.

Thanks, Marvin!

Oct. 10, 2009: Dorina Lazo Gilmore signing at NCIBA

By
Renee Ting
on September 25, 2009 12:18 PM |
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For those of you lucky booksellers attending the Northern California Independent Bookseller's Association trade show in October, Dorina will be signing copies of Cora Cooks Pancit at our table at 12:30. Mark your trade show schedules!

Dorina Lazo Gilmore signs Cora Cooks Pancit
12:30pm, Saturday, October 10, 2009
NCIBA Tradeshow Booth C-4


September 19, 2009: Dorina Lazo Gilmore at the Fresno Tamejavi Festival

By
Renee Ting
on September 19, 2009 12:00 PM |
tamejavi.jpgOn September 19, 2009, Tamejavi will once again return to Fresno. Radio Park and the Fresno Art Museum will become an interactive space in which artists from the Hmong, Indigenous Mexican, Iranian, Filipino, Native American and African American communities will tell stories of heritage and cultural transformation utilizing different art forms such as theater, dance, music, poetry and multimedia. These groups will also share how they have added artistic expressions and cultural practices to the Central Valley's landscape as well as new flavors and ingredients to the local cuisine.

Dorina will be at the Children's Stage at the Fresno Art Musuem signing Cora Cooks Pancit. Not sure yet exactly what time, though, so check back to get the details if you're going.

Dorina Lazo Gilmore book signing
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Tamejavi Festival
Children's Stage at the Fresno Art Museum
2233 N 1st Street
Fresno, CA 93703

September 12, 2009: Dorina Lazo Gilmore Reading at Eastwind Books of Berkeley

By
Renee Ting
on September 12, 2009 11:46 AM |
Eastwind Books of Berkeley and KPFA 94.1FM will be co-hosting an event on September 12, 2009 at 3:00pm featuring Dorina Lazo Gilmore and her book, Cora Cooks Pancit. The radio station will be recording the event for their program called APEX Express, a show featuring "stories and sounds with an Asian Pacific Islander point of view." The air date of the show is yet to be determined, but don't worry, I'll let you know when it is so if you are not lucky enough to live near Berkeley, you can still hear it online.

Author Dorina Lazo Gilmore
Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 3:00pm
Eastwind Books of Berkeley
2066 University Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94704
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Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore grew up in a Filipino-Italian family in the kitchen with her mama, aunties and grandmas. She loves to create healthy recipes and share stories in the kitchen with her friends and daughters. Dorina has a B.A. in English and Journalism and is completing an M.F.A. degree in Children’s Literature at Hollins University. She is also the author of two other children’s books, Children of the San Joaquin Valley and Stone Soup: A Hmong Girl’s Journey to the United States. Dorina is originally from Chicago and lives with her husband and two daughters in Fresno, California.

Kristi Valiant loves cooking, monkeys, penguins, and red walls, all of which are found in this book. Her husband loves hippos, so you may find hippos lurking here too. Kristi graduated magna cum laude from Columbus College of Art & Design with a major in Illustration. She has illustrated dozens of leveled readers, and her illustrations can be found in magazines and on Christmas cards. Kristi grew up in Wisconsin, studied in Ohio, moved to Texas, spent a summer in China, and now lives in Indiana. Visit her online at www.kristivaliant.com.

Shen’s Books is a publisher of multicultural children’s literature that emphasizes cultural diversity and tolerance, with a focus on introducing children to the cultures of Asia.

Through books, we can share a world a stories, building greater understanding and tolerance within our increasingly diverse communities as well as throughout our continuously shrinking globe.