Fatima Shaik, Author Dial Books $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2106-7
The voices of childhood are remarkably absent from Shaik's first book for young readers, an earnest tale of the hardship and love shared by two girls in 18th-century Louisiana. Melitte, the narrator, is slave to a pair of poor French-born farmers...
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Fatima Shaik, Author Creative Arts Book Company $13.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-88739-050-0
This collection of three lush and evocative novellas is the first publication in book form by this native of New Orleans, whose keen ear for dialogue and languid style help capture the special ambience of southern Louisiana. In the title story a...
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Fatima Shaik, Author, Cindy Kane, Editor, Floyd Cooper, Illustrator Dial Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1442-7
In this disjointed picture book, two young narrators describe their activities on New Orleans' ""day of street parties,"" a time when ""Mardi Gras Indians"" don ""feathers, beads, and gemstones"" to dance through the neighborhoods. The children also
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Fatima Shaik, Author, E. B. Lewis, Illustrator, E. B. Lewis, Foreword by Dial Books $15.89 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1886-9
Lewis's (Down the Road) action-filled watercolors animate a New Orleans neighborhood in Shaik's (Melitte) introduction to a turn-of-the-century tradition: the ""second line"" of dancers who followed the legendary jazz bands. Shaik is at her best...
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