Recent Events

California Librarians: mark your calendars! Shen's Books will be at the annual California School Library Association conference again this year. The conference will be held November 19-21 at the Ontario Convention Center. We'll have copies of all our books for sale, at special conference prices. See you then!

Shen's Books at CSLA Conference
November 19-21, 2009
Ontario Convention Center
Ontario, CA

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

On 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

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

Elizabeth Dulemba has a new book coming out this fall, Soap, Soap, Soap! She will be debuting it with her first public reading at the Decatur Book Festival on September 6, 2009 at noon, at the Children's Stage.

Elizabeth Dulemba reading
Sunday, September 6, 2009 at 12:00 noon
Decatur Book Festival
Downtown Decatur, Georgia

If you're in Evansville, Indiana, come out and meet Kristi Valiant, illustrator of Cora Cooks Pancit! She'll be autographing books at Barnes & Noble on July 25th, 2009 at 2:00pm.

Illustrator Kristi Valiant book signing
Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Barnes & Noble
624 South Green River Rd
Evansville, IN 47715

If you're in the Fresno area, come meet Dorina Lazo Gilmore at Petunia's Place, an independent children's bookstore, on June 27th at 11:00am. She'll be reading and signing her book, Cora Cooks Pancit, about a Filipino girl who makes her favorite noodle dish with her mother.

Dorina is a local author in Fresno, and Central California plays a role in this charming children's story, since Cora's grandfather Lolo was a cook for the Filipino farmworkers who picked strawberries and grapes in the fields.

Dorina Lazo Gilmore Book Signing
Saturday, June 27, 2009 11:00 am
Petunia's Place
2017 W Bullard Ave. Fresno, CA 93711