Alabama Authors Directory

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Barbara Barcellona Smith

Lives in: Enterprise, AL

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  • Email: barbara.barcellona@icloud.com

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About Barbara Barcellona Smith

Genres: Children and Young Adults

Available for: Readings, School Programs, In Person, Remote

Bio: Barbara Barcellona Smith grew up on the central coast of California with her Italian father and her Puerto Rican-Cuban-Lebanese mother, Emily. It was nothing to come home from school to find dead doves, rabbits, or whatever her hunter-sad shot that day. All friends knew NOT to say “Gross!” No matter what they saw in the kitchen sink unless they wanted a twenty-minute lecture from the Sicilian Godfather on manners and expanding one’s horizons! Barbara’s ethnic household was quite unique, …Read More providing her with a lifetime supply of strange, entertaining, and valuable stories like Let’s Eat Snails! to share with young readers. In addition to writing, Barbara has worked as a radio promotions director, an award-winning television commercial production coordinator, and a corporate marketer. She has a degree in journalism/public relations from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She was an English as a second language educator and now lives in Enterprise, Alabama.

Works: Let’s Eat Snails! (NewSouth Books, 2021) | Children’s Book
Let’s Eat Snails! takes young readers on a culinary journey where they might never have had the opportunity to venture. In addition to whetting children’s appetites for new and unfamiliar …Read More dishes, Let’s Eat Snails! is also a cultural window allowing children to peer into the lives of ethnic neighbors who are a large part of American society. This book is a metaphor for all sorts of cultural things we’re afraid to try, then try and find we enjoy!

Awards:

Named a SuperPower Book for Identity & Culture by Every Child a Reader at New York Children’s Book week, May 2021
First-Listed Honorable Mention at New York Book Fest, July 2022

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