Award-winning writer - Fiction - Nonfiction - and More
Gail Bellamy
Co-Author
Gail Ghetia Bellamy, PhD, is an award-winning journalist whose work—articles, fiction, essays and poetry—has been appeared in more than 120 publications, including newspapers, magazines, literary and academic journals, and anthologies. She is the former executive food editor of Restaurant Hospitality, a national magazine for the restaurant industry, and served as Poet Laureate of the City of Cleveland Heights, OH, in 2009 and 2010. She edited the ekphrastic poetry and photography collection, Poetography (Heights Arts), 2010.
Gail’s published books include the Cleveland Memories book series published by Gray & Co.—Cleveland Food Memories, Cleveland Christmas Memories and Cleveland Summertime Memories—as well as the fine arts interior design book Design Spirits published by PBC International, two poetry chapbooks published by Pudding House, and three digital cookbooks co-authored with Linda Funk and Jana Strobel. Really Fast, Really Easy, Really Good; Easy Snackable Soy; and Just Add Soy can be downloaded on The Soyfoods Council website at www.thesoyfoodscouncil.com.
With Vicki Draeger, Gail has co-authored The Vegetable Storybook, illustrated by syndicated cartoonist Jenny Campbell; and three novellas about artist Frida Kahlo translated into Spanish by Sonia Dolores Estrada Morales. Soy Complicada, Soy Quien Soy and Soy Frida were all published by Teacher’s Discovery.
The Vegetable Storybook and Really Fast, Really Easy, Really Good have both received “Best in the U.S.” Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.
Storybooks
Vegetable Storybook for Readers and Eaters
The Vegetable Storybook: For Readers and Eaters by Vicki Draeger and Gail Bellamy is illustrated by syndicated cartoonist Jenny Campbell. It won a "Best in the U.S." Gourmand Cookbook Award in 2010.
"A winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, The Vegetable Storybook for Readers and Eaters by Gail Bellamy and Vicki Draeger, proves that getting young people to try vegetables is (and should be) a global concern. The themes of food, family and community find meaning in this book."
Food Management.com Book Review
Fiction
The Book of Jashar
When Hawaiian bats fall from the skies and humpback whales rot on Maui beaches in unparalleled numbers, two young scientists are sent to investigate. Anela, a Maui High girl, and Ian, a vampire on a mission, are thrown together to solve the mystery. Anela is drawn to the mysterious Ian, but her instinct tells her he's keeping secrets – secrets she's determined to uncover. Count Balan, the albino vampire who transformed Ian into one of the undead during the Middle Ages, is plotting to become ruler of both the living and the undead. The Count is following directions encoded in an ancient manuscript, The Book of Jashar, referenced in The Bible. He has created an army of dhampir, (half-vampire/half-human “day-walkers”) to do his bidding. When Anela learns Ian’s secrets, she offers to become his day-walker. The Book of Jashar holds the key to stopping the count. Ian and Anela must find it and decipher the code in time. Anela enlists the help of her high school friends. When Count Balan and his dhampir capture Anela and her friends, they join Ian to fight him with a blend of science, ingenuity and faith.
Curriculum
Soy FRIDA - Level 1 - Spanish Reader
Learn about Frida and her most famous paintings in a Level 1 Spanish reader. Artfully written by Gail Bellamy and Vicki Draeger, and translated by Sonia Dolores Estrada Morales, this present tense book talks about Frida’s life story and how her past affected the works she painted.
FRIDA Soy quien soy - Level 2 -
Spanish Reader
Frida reimagined, talking about her life as it inspired her most famous paintings. Artfully written by Gail Bellamy and Vicki Draeger, and translated by Sonia Dolores Estrada Morales
FRIDA Soy complicada - Level 3 - Spanish Reader
But Frida Kahlo was not an icon. She was a human being. Here is Frida reimagined in the first person, talking about her life as it inspired her most famous paintings. Artfully written by Gail Bellamy and Vicki Draeger, and translated by Sonia Dolores Estrada Morales, this book goes inside Frida’s thoughts for a glimpse of her motivations and beliefs, often using her own words. Like any Frida Kahlo book, it contains references to her over-the-top romantic adventures.
