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Yvette Landry’s first children’s book, “The Ghost Tree,” was nominated for “Louisiana’s Young Reader’s Choice Award.” And more recently, her new book, “Madame Grand Doigt,” along with “The Ghost Tree,” were formally accepted into the Library of Congress Collection for Children’s Literature.

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Warren Storm: Taking the World by Storm – Book

Known to many as “The Godfather of Swamp Pop,” Warren “Storm” Schexnider is a Louisiana music legend with a career spanning over seventy years.  In Taking the World, by Storm, author and fellow musician Yvette Landry talks with Storm about his life, starting with his boyhood in rural Vermilion Parish. From meeting Elvis at Graceland, to shaking Hank Williams’s hand, to sharing the stage with Robert Plant and his idol, Fats Domino, Warren’s endless stories and anecdotes, as well as his incredible collection of photographs and memorabilia, open a window into the life of an important figure in American music. 

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Madame Grand Doigt

2010

The UL Press is proud to announce the release of Yvette Landry’s second book, Madame Grand Doigt – a spine-chilling children’s story that is brilliantly illustrated and steeped in Cajun tradition.

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The Ghost Tree

2010

“Nominated for Louisiana’s Young Reader’s Choice Award”

In her first children’s story, The Ghost Tree, Singer-Songwriter Yvette Landry’s Cajun childhood contributes to a tale rich with the intrigue and adventure that only the Louisiana swamps can provide. The story begins in her ancestral home, the small, somewhat isolated community of Isle Labbé, and ends in the swamps of the Atchafalaya Basin. Her grandfather tells her of an ancient Native American legend: A cursed tree that comes to life every Halloween. Unlucky travelers who stumble across the tree on that fateful night are never seen again. He would know after all, he’s the only one ever to survive an encounter with … The Ghost Tree.

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WarrenStorm-TakingTheWorldByStorm-WebsiteBanner-Book

Warren Storm: Taking the World by Storm – Book

Known to many as “The Godfather of Swamp Pop,” Warren “Storm” Schexnider is a Louisiana music legend with a career spanning over seventy years.  In Taking the World, by Storm, author and fellow musician Yvette Landry talks with Storm about his life, starting with his boyhood in rural Vermilion Parish. From meeting Elvis at Graceland, to shaking Hank Williams’s hand, to sharing the stage with Robert Plant and his idol, Fats Domino, Warren’s endless stories and anecdotes, as well as his incredible collection of photographs and memorabilia, open a window into the life of an important figure in American music. 

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Madameproduct

Madame Grand Doigt

2010

The UL Press is proud to announce the release of Yvette Landry’s second book, Madame Grand Doigt – a spine-chilling children’s story that is brilliantly illustrated and steeped in Cajun tradition.

Click here for a preview of Madame Grand Doigt.

BUY NOW
9780982923979 p0 v1 s600

The Ghost Tree

2010

“Nominated for Louisiana’s Young Reader’s Choice Award”

In her first children’s story, The Ghost Tree, Singer-Songwriter Yvette Landry’s Cajun childhood contributes to a tale rich with the intrigue and adventure that only the Louisiana swamps can provide. The story begins in her ancestral home, the small, somewhat isolated community of Isle Labbé, and ends in the swamps of the Atchafalaya Basin. Her grandfather tells her of an ancient Native American legend: A cursed tree that comes to life every Halloween. Unlucky travelers who stumble across the tree on that fateful night are never seen again. He would know after all, he’s the only one ever to survive an encounter with … The Ghost Tree.

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Madameproduct

Madame Grand Doigt

2010

The UL Press is proud to announce the release of Yvette Landry’s second book, Madame Grand Doigt – a spine-chilling children’s story that is brilliantly illustrated and steeped in Cajun tradition.

Click here for a preview of Madame Grand Doigt.

BUY NOW
9780982923979 p0 v1 s600

The Ghost Tree

2010

“Nominated for Louisiana’s Young Reader’s Choice Award”

In her first children’s story, The Ghost Tree, Singer-Songwriter Yvette Landry’s Cajun childhood contributes to a tale rich with the intrigue and adventure that only the Louisiana swamps can provide. The story begins in her ancestral home, the small, somewhat isolated community of Isle Labbé, and ends in the swamps of the Atchafalaya Basin. Her grandfather tells her of an ancient Native American legend: A cursed tree that comes to life every Halloween. Unlucky travelers who stumble across the tree on that fateful night are never seen again. He would know after all, he’s the only one ever to survive an encounter with … The Ghost Tree.

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What An Honor!

"Every year at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., when people enter the Pavilion of the States they can pick up a Discover Great Places through Reading brochure, which includes a map that can be stamped/stickered at each state’s table. On the back of the brochure there is list of books, “Great Reads about Great Places;” with one title from each state, a book that is about the state or by an author from the state. A limited number of the state selections are sold there at the national book festival. Each state through its state library is asked to choose a book that will be a good read for children or young adults, as they are the primary audience for the map. It is my pleasure to inform that Louisiana State Librarian Rebecca Hamilton has notified the Library of Congress Center for the Book that the book chosen for this honor for 2013 is The Ghost Tree. Congratulations!" Jim Davis Director of the Louisiana Center for the Book, State Library of Louisiana
John Doe
Designer
"With The Ghost Tree Yvette Landry has created an incredibly rich cautionary tale. In this story she honors the power of memory and storytelling. Here is a tale that serves both children and adults, the adventurer and the observer. Her narrator is one who is held between what Pop told him and his own experiences of living in a world that is always dangerous and foreboding. He knows the swamp of experience that every culture and every individual faces in growing up. It is called “the real world” in many places. Sometimes the danger zones are singled out by gingerbread houses, or goddesses with snakes for hair, or trees that turn children to stone and eat them up. The Ghost Tree reminds us that the world is a dangerous place and that the story is an incredible place to go to for wisdom, or just a touch of plain, good sense if we are not ready yet or old enough yet for wisdom. "
Darrell Bourque
Louisiana Poet Laureate, 2008--2011 Author of In Ordinary Light, New and Selected Poems, UL Press, 2010 Megan's Guitar and Other Poems from Acadie, UL Press, 2013
"Award-winning singer, songwriter, musician, and educator Yvette Landry has now written a spine-chilling children’s story—The Ghost Tree—vividly illustrated and steeped in Cajun tradition. Of course, trees in the swamps of Louisiana don’t really turn children to stone and swallow them whole, but this is the kind of story that Cajun parents used to tell their kids to prevent them from venturing alone into potentially dangerous places, like deep woods and swamps."
Greg Guirard
Cajun Author & Photographer

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