This bedtime lullaby will ease little ones into sleepy time with visions of the wild times that critters have in dreamland. Bright and playful watercolors create a fantastic world where a fancy poodle dreams of winning the Iditarod; a bear with a belly full of fish dreams of slurping peanut butter and jelly sandwiches; a plain white beluga dreams of painting herself the colors of the northern lights; and more. The repetition of Sweet dreams . . . Sleep tight . . . for each animal encourages children to join in until it’s time to settle down and dream their own fantastic dreams.

Alaska Northwest Books
Hard and Softbound, 8 3/8” x 8 3/8”
32 pages, 35 illustrations
HB ISBN: 0-88240-554-3, $15.95 retail
SB ISBN: 0-88240-555-1, $8.95 retail

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Hello all —
In this issue of Notes & Quotes we gave a great selection of summer reading for kids, including a fun title recently reviewed in the Horn Book, Kumak’s Fish (see below). We also have some very busy authors—find out what they’re up to as well.

We hope you’re enjoying your summer thus far and staying cool and relaxed. As always, thank you for your continued support, and until next time, I hope you enjoy the August issue of Notes & Quotes.

Regards,

Mike Jones
Dir. Of Sales and Marketing

• Dungeness Crabs and Blackberry Cobblers (WestWinds Press, 1-55868-839-0, $17.95) — Glowing review with cover image from the Northwest Books section of the Statesman Journal (Salem, Ore.). “It’s a beautiful, easy-to-use and thorough cookbook. It’s a rarity—it’s almost 100 percent fascinating and useful.”
  
  
• Cooking to Impress Without Stress (Graphic Arts Books, 1-55868-772-6, $18.95) – 1/3 page color review in Texas Culinary Times, July/August issue with cover image.
  
  
• Lowcountry: From Charleston to Savannah (Graphic Arts Books, 1-55868-796-3 HB, 1-55868-840-4 SB, $29.95/$19.95) – Half-page article on the book with cover image in the Book Review section of the Post and Courier (Charleston, SC).
  
  
• Berry Magic (Alaska Northwest Books, 0-88240-575-6 HB, 0-88240-576-4 SB, $15.95/$8.95) – Lead book review, including cover image, in the most recent issue of Alaska Airlines Magazine.
  
  
• Fearless Men and Fabulous Women (Epicenter Press, 0-9745014-0-9, $17.95) – Included in the Book Review section of the most recent issue of Alaska Airlines Magazine.
  
  
• Not Really an Alaska Mountain Man (Alaska Northwest Books, 0-88240-590-X, $14.95, available September) – NPR’s “All Things Considered” featured Doug Fine’s latest audio postcard on kayaking with humpback whales. Go to www.npr.org and search under “doug fine.”
  
  
• Alaska’s Bush Planes (Alaska Northwest Books, 0-88240-586-1, $14.95) – Featured in General Aviation News. Also, watch for another review in the September issue of Vintage Airplane.
  
  
• Alaska’s Heroes (Alaska Northwest Books, 0-88240-542-X, $13.95) – Author Nancy Ferrell was interviewed on KINY/Juneau’s popular “Capital Chat” show. Randy Bayliss, author of the humorous cookbook Life’s a Fish and Then You Fry, will be on the show in August.
  
  
• Kumak’s Fish (Alaska Northwest Books, 0-88240-583-7 HB, 0-88240-584-5 SB, $15.95/$8.95) – Reviewed in the Horn Book: “ . . . In this delightful variant on the old tale of the enormous turnip, when Kumak eventually does hook something, the whole family and eventually the whole village must help pull it in. Light watercolor washes outlined in delicate ink on white paper give the pictures a sense of the icy setting while still conveying the joyful energy of the people as they work together. Bania pays careful attention to the details of place and of the Inupiat people, but the book is never stuffy. She includes several visual jokes as well as nicely defined characters for children to seek out in the pictures, and brings the story to a triumphant and very funny conclusion.”

AUTHORS & BOOKS

• Janie Hibler is just wrapping up her national tour with HarperCollins to promote her new berry cookbook, as well as WestWinds Press’s Dungeness Crabs & Blackberry Cobblers. The tour included signing and cooking demos in New York City, radio and magazine (Newsweek) interviews, as well as festival and farmers’ market appearances in Seattle, Wash., and Napa, Calif.
  
  

• On August 7, Tricia Brown, quilter and editor of Fresh Air in the Attic, will be featured at two events in Oregon’s capital city of Salem: Greenbaum’s Quilted Forest at 10 a.m. and Jackson’s Books at 2 p.m. Quilts from the book as well as some of the participating guild members will be on hand for the Salem signing. Tricia and the quilts will have just traveled from an outdoor quilt show and book signing, “Quilts on the River” in Hood River, Oregon, in late July. Tricia also will be signing her children’s books, Groucho’s Eyebrows and Children of the Midnight Sun at the Jackson’s Books event. For more information, call Greenbaum’s Quilted Forest at (503) 363-7973 or Jackson’s Books at (503) 399-8694.
  

• Award-winning chef and author, Cynthia Nims will help kick off the grand opening of Metropolitan Markets’ fifth store in Federal Way, Wash., as the headlining guest at their annual Peach-O-Rama festival. She will be signing her book Stone Fruit—the second in The Northwest Homegrown Series—and recipes from the book will be tested throughout the day in the festival kitchen. For more information you can visit www.peachorama.com or www.metropolitan-market.com.

• Santa Barbara Writers Conference founder and author Barnaby Conrad just finished taping a segment on Travel Globe Radio Chicago’s WCKG 105.9 FM talking about his new book Santa Barbara and the area itself as a travel destination. Barnaby’s essay accompanies the beautiful images of Santa Barbara photographer, Marc Muench. For more information visit www.travelgloberadio.com.
  

• Great Lodges of the Canadian Rockies – Just concluded the second/final portion of its two-part series that aired nationally on PBS.

• Portrait of the Alaska Railroad author Kaylene Johnson will be featured on an upcoming “Discovery Channel” series on railroads that run through National Parks.
  

• Alaska’s Totem Poles author Pat Kramer is presenting on board Princess Cruises’s Sapphire Princess as it sails the Inside Passage through mid-September. She’ll also be signing at ports of call.
  

• Illustrator Amy Meissner will host a special event at the Western Folk Life Center in Elko, Nev., featuring her children’s book Ollie Jolly, Rodeo Clown, on Saturday, Aug. 14, from 1-3 p.m.
  Harbour Publishing gardening titles, How to Get your Lawn off Drugs and How to Get Your Lawn off Grass, will be featured on WGN Chicago with Mike Nowak, Sunday, July 31, from 6-7 p.m. Central Time.

SHOWS & CONVENTIONS

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Summer is a great time to catch up and flex those reading muscles before the new school year starts. Below are some of our favorite books for beginning to advanced young readers. Download free study guides on our website and check out these great combinations for hungry young readers (www.gacpc.com)!

		Berry Magic by Terri Sloat and Betty Huffman Alaska Northwest Books HB: ISBN: 0-88240-575-6, $15.95 SB ISBN: 0-88240-576-4, $8.95 Ages 4 and up
		The touching story of an Eskimo girl who brings the luscious berries of the valley to her village through song. Stunning illustrations make this a story-time favorite.
		Blueberry Shoe by Ann Dixon, illustrations by Evon Zerbets Alaska Northwest Books ISBN: 0-88240-519-5 Softbound, $8.95 Ages 3 and up
		An elegant picture book that manages to combine a good story, some natural history and unusual illustrations… A tasty offering, laced with nice surprises. —Kirkus
		Kumak’s House by Michael Bania Alaska Northwest Books HB ISBN: 0-88240-540-3, $15.95 SB ISBN: 0-88240-584-5, $8.95 Ages 4 and up Kumak’s Fish by Michael Bania Alaska Northwest Books HB ISBN: 0-88240-583-7, $15.95 SB ISBN: 0-88240-584-5, $8.95 Ages 4 and up
		Chill out this summer with Kumak, his village and his humorous adventures and if you haven’t already, make sure to check out the Horn Book review on Kumak’s Fish above.
		Seldovia Sam and the Very Large Clam by Susan Woodwarod Springer, illustrations by Amy Meissner Alaska Northwest Books ISBN: 0-88240-570-5 Softbound, $6.95, Ages 6-10 Seldovia Sam and the Sea Otter Rescue by Susan Woodwarod Springer, illustrations by Amy Meissner Alaska Northwest Books ISBN: 0-88240-571-3 Softbound, $6.95 Ages 6-10 This exciting series is great for beginners transitioning from picture books to chapter books. Reluctant readers love Sam, too. Watch for new adventures coming soon!