We love Arkansas PBS and are thrilled to share that Beanies, Ball Caps and Being Bald by Tracy Peterson with Matthew Shelby was featured as part of the PBS Summer Reading Program! Enjoy Tracy’s read of the book along with Lindsey Witting’s animated illustrations by clicking on the video below.
THANK YOU! We're Donating $50 to Children's Alopecia Project
Thanks to 10 customers who added $5 to have their Beanies book signed by co-author Matthew Shelby recently, we are donating $50 to Children's Alopecia Project!
If you want to join in giving to this organization that supports children with hair loss from Alopecia while gifting a book that shares "different isn't bad, different is just different," just add this option from the drop-down menu to any Beanies order.
Three Et Alia Books Among 2021 "Arkansas Gems"
Arkansas Gems is an annual publication of the Arkansas Center for the Book. The just-released 2021 poster features three Et Alia books.
Arkansas Gems posters and bookmarks are published annually to highlight new works about Arkansas or by authors from the Natural State and are introduced each year at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Congratulations on selection to author Crystal C. Mercer, photographer Arshia Khan, author/photographer Ashley Murphy, author Tracy Peterson, illustrator Lindsay Witting, and Sloane LaFrance.
This marks the fourth consecutive year that Et Alia books have been selected as gems.
It’s Wash Day! But Elise doesn’t want to wash her hair. Will a visit from her favorite Auntie CC, encouragement from her big sister, Gisele, a poem laced with magic, and a special gift passed down from the women who came before her be enough to change her mind?
Sprinkled with #BlackGirlMagic and an ode to cultural beauty, From Cotton to Silk encourages girls everywhere to appreciate their hair in its natural state and love themselves just the way they are. Its enchanting pages reveal 467 hours of hand-stitching poured into textile renderings that blend cloth, culture, and the superpowers of the kinky, curly coif.
8.5 x 11 Hardback, 36 Pages. ISBN: 978-1-944528-24-9
Cartwheels is a great story for opening conversations and explaining the basics of dyslexia to children.
Lively Sloane loves to make up dances, put on shows, and do art. But as she heads into first grade, nothing frustrates her more than reading. In math, the numbers go together right in her brain, but no matter how hard she looks at letters, and no matter how many times her teacher and parents say “focus,” she would much rather do cartwheels. She feels sad that she isn’t keeping up with her class and isn’t reading the “right way.” Then, she finds out that she has dyslexia. Join Sloane on her journey to learn to read, gain confidence, and find her own special kind of smart.
Based on the real-life teacher/student relationship between veteran first-grade teacher, author Tracy Peterson, and student Sloane LaFrance.
Available in 8.5 x 8.5 Hardback ($18.95, ISBN: 978-1-944528-12-6 ) or Paperback ($11.95, ISBN: 978-1-944528-13-3). 34 pages
This is not about a virus. This is about us.
The Masked Project presents 100 portraits taken by photographer Ashley Murphy during the spring 2020 surge of COVID-19. From behind cotton and polypropylene, stars and grommets, leather and paisley, feathers and studs, eyes unmask worlds about personhood and pandemic life. The collection and flash reflections from Murphy’s brief portrait sessions are moving reminders that alongside fear of the unknown stands the refusal to shrink and the unrelenting drive for self-expression. From a safe distance, we emerge bold and brave, known and remembered.
This signed coffee table edition offers intimate encounters with each subject, including full-bleed images extending edge to edge. This book will be printed in small print runs and availability will vary. 8.5 x 11 hardcover coffee table book with premium black & white images. 216 pages. ISBN: 978-1944528102
2021 Year In Review
What a year! I always find it easy to focus on what is undone, but look what we accomplished at this small press for big voices this year! Our authors and interns work so hard (and I work pretty hard myself, I have to say). Together, we gave a pandemic year trying to keep us down a pretty good run for its money:
Published four books (Children’s books From Cotton to Silk: The Magic of Black Hair by Crystal C. Mercer and Cartwheels: Finding Your Special Kind of Smart by Tracy Peterson; Nonfiction anthology Truths We Tell: Stories From The Yarn Stage curated by Hilary Trudell; and Memoir/Relationships book Invitation to Intimacy: What the marriage of two couples therapists reveals about risk, transformation, and the astonishing healing power of intimacy by Dr. Judy Tiesel-Jensen;
Celebrated the highest number of sales in the press’s history with Cartwheels, representing the book’s helpfulness in the lives of kids, families, therapists, and teachers experiencing or working with those experiencing dyslexia and other learning differences;
Earned numerous awards: But First, Save 10: The One Simple Money Move That Will Change Your Life by Sarah-Catherine Gutierrez (Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs)Bronze in the Self-Help Category) and The Hospice Doctor’s Widow: A Journal by Jennifer A. O’Brien (Nautilus Book Awards Silver in Death & Dying/Grief & Loss; Indie Book Awards Winner in Relationships; International Impact Book Awards winner in Book Interior Design; and Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs)Bronze in the Gift/Specialty/Journal Category).
Sarah-Catherine Gutierrez and her Save10 Movement, co-founded with Stephanie Matthews, created a partnership with the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas through which SC (aka Ladysplaining Money) did an Arkansas College Campus tour of six campuses, delivering essential lessons on saving and preparing for retirement early to hundreds of women before they enter the workforce. Copies of But First, Save 10 were provided for 500 registrants;
Produced our first card pack, Money Talks Conversation Cards, including 70 questions from Ladysplaining Money and personal finance thought leaders to spark empowering, change-making money discussions among women;
Ran two successful Kickstarter campaigns (175 backers pledged $9,528 to fund From Cotton to Silk at 129% of our goal; 120 backers pledged $7,170 to fund Truths We Tell at 102% of our goal);
Provided manuscript editing and publishing advice for dozens of authors;
Donated or worked with a donor to provide copies of Cartwheels and Butterfly Dreams: A Friendship Takes Flight by Carol Dabney to dozens of children at Our House for their summer programming, accompanied by two days of readings, activities, and live music by Tracy Peterson and Carol Dabney;
Et Alia authors appeared on numerous podcasts, on the news, in dozens of articles (including Ladysplaining Money appearing in Real Simple and The Wall Street Journal), on the radio, live on stage, and even in a documentary film (The Mud & The Lotus author Courtney Robinson);
Signed contracts for three 2022 and 2023 books, including a second children’s book by Cartwheels author Tracy Peterson;
Celebrated countless connections of books and readers.
THANK YOU to our readers and supporters for the vital role that you continue to play in the life of Et Alia!
CARTWHEELS HEADS TO ARKANSAS PBS "RISE AND SHINE"
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!
We are thrilled to share that Cartwheels: Finding Your Own Special Kind of Smart is headed to Arkansas PBS on August 27 + 28! Get ready to see Sloan LaFrance’s dyslexia story story by Tracy Peterson with Lindsey Witting's illustrations cartwheeling across the screen.
"Rise and Shine" brings summer learning into your home, weekday mornings from July 6 to August 13 on Arkansas PBS and is brought to you in partnership with Arkansas Department of Education.
Rise and Shine Web Page | General “Rise and Shine” information including schedules and downloading weekly Power Packets: https://myarpbs.org/riseandshine
What is Rise and Shine?
Each weekday, a group of all-star Arkansas teachers will share mini-lessons – right on your TV – to help kids in kindergarten through 5th grade continue learning between school years. Plus, you can request free Power Packets (available in both English and Spanish) that include at-home activities and allow kids to follow along each day.
“Rise and Shine” is produced in partnership with the Arkansas Department of Education’s Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. The six-week program will air on Arkansas PBS weekdays beginning Tuesday, July 6, at 8 a.m. and will feature lessons in literacy, math, science and social studies. The program will be available free of charge on television, online and through streaming devices.
You can livestream at myarpbs.org/riseandshine and the program will also be available on-demand each day by 10 a.m. at myarpbs.org/riseandshine, on the Engage Arkansas PBS app, on the PBS Video app, on the Arkansas PBS channel for YouTube TV subscribers, and through on-demand devices where the PBS Video app is available, including Apple TV and Roku. Summer learning content will be available for the duration of the six-week program.
Helpful Website Links:
You Tube Playlist | Your segment will reside on the “Rise and Shine” YouTube Playlist here: https://bit.ly/riseandshineplaylist
Rise and Shine Web Page | General “Rise and Shine” information including schedules and downloading weekly Power Packets: https://myarpbs.org/riseandshine
Spanish Rise and Shine Website | https://www.myarkansaspbs.org/riseandshine/es