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Saturday morning kicks off with the Giant Omelette/St. Mary Magdalen Christian Service Center Walk. A short walk through beautiful downtown Abbeville is a great way to start your Omelette day.
$20.00 per person minimum donation. This Center serves the people of all faiths in our community. The walk will start at 9:00 am. Registration in front of the Court House. All proceeds go to the Center. Download our registration form,

Author and Cajun Storyteller Sheila Hebert Collins

Kid's World is Saturday only. The kid's world area is set up in the square. It is a fun offering for the children. among the offerings this year are free helium balloons, activity sheets and giveaways for the children, an opportunity for children to make pictures.

COMING TO THE OMELETTE FESTIVAL'S KIDS WORLD....

Sheila Hébert-Collins

Author of:

Blanchette et les Sept Petit Cajuns
T’Pousette et T’Poulette
Les Trois Cochons
Jolie Blonde and the Three Heberts
Cendrillon: A Cajun Cinderella
Petite Rouge: A Cajun Twist to an old Tale
Jean-Paul Hébert Was There
and
Jacques et la Canne à Sucre


KIDS WORLD PRESENTATION: Ms. Hébert-Collins teaches children about Acadian heritage and introduces Cajun French words and expressions while telling familiar, humorous Cajun fairy tales. She will be performing on Nov. 3 only at 1:30 and at the Alliance Center across from Magdalen Square near Children’s World. Her performance will include two readings along with “Cajunized Songs” and activities. Autographed copies of her books will be available following the readings as well as at the Merchandise Booth all weekend.

BOOKS: Autographed copies of Sheila Hébert-Collins’ books are available at all her readings. The price for all books is $15.00. Audio versions are also available for $10.00 which include two stories on each. The author reads the stories herself with Cajun music added.
Two are available: Jolie Blonde/Les Trois Cochons and Petite Rouge/Cendrillon. All books and audios will be available at the Omelette Merchandise Booth. All proceeds go to the Omelette Association.

CONTACT:
To learn more about Sheila visit her website www.sheilacollins.com
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To order books and request book talks call Caitlin Smith at Pelican Publishing Co
Phone: Pelican Publishing 1-800-843-1774


SHEILA HEBERT COLLINS

Sheila was born in Abbeville, Louisiana, the heart of Cajun Country. She was what you’d call an authentic Cajun since both her mother and father’s lineage traced back to Acadie in Canada. Sheila grew up proud of her Cajun culture. Teaching the lower grades for 20 years instilled a love for children’s literature. That passion for children’s literature, combined with her Cajun Pride, motivated her to rewrite cherished fairy tales with a Cajun twist. These fairy tales were designed to teach younger children French, as well as to develop Cajun pride.
Sheila didn’t start her writing career until she retired from teaching in Louisiana in 1989. In late 1993, her first Cajun Fairy Tale was published, Jolie Blonde and the Three Heberts (pronounced A-Bears), a Cajun Goldilocks. By 2004 she had eight books published (seven fairy tales and one historical fiction on the Cajuns) and had visited over 150 schools in Louisiana and many public libraries, reading her Cajun fairy tales and promoting cultural pride.
In 1999, Sheila became a school librarian, working at Indian Bayou Elementary. In 2002, Sheila was hired as a media specialist at Manatee Elementary in Florida where she worked for seven years. In 2009, she returned to Abbeville where she is an elementary school librarian. She continues to write about her culture and continues to visit schools on a limited basis.
Sheila’s name appears in the Louisiana State Artist Roster as an author and Cajun storyteller. She has made presentations for the Louisiana Reading Association’s local and state conventions. She has also made presentations for the Florida Association of Media Educators, Lee County Reading Festival, International Reading Association, Florida Gulf Coast University, and University of Louisiana at Lafayette.. She has visited over 150 schools in Southeast Region. and numerous libraries throughout Louisiana and Florida.

New at Kid's World this year:

Don't miss this fun event. Watch as guest from around the world try their hand at backing a tractor into an egg.
Not so easy when the aim of the game is to have the smallest crack. This event happen Saturday at 1:00pm on Concord Street.
The tractors will be on hand on Sunday for the public to try their hand.

Early Sunday morning, without any pompt and circumstance, the skillet is transported via forklift from its storage place about 1 mile from downtown Abbeville.

If you are awake early enough you may get to witness this!!

CAJUN CHALLENGE BICYCLE RIDE-Sunday
2012 was the first year for this event and it is back for 2013. Check out the site LaTrail.org for information as it comes available. We hope that this will become an annual offering on Omelette Sunday.

St. Mary Magdalen Church
Always a special part of the weekend where the eggs, bread and festival itself are blessed.
Be there early to see the lineup of "chefs" from around the world in full dress. Each participating country carries it's flag during the procession into the church. During mass the National Anthem of each country is sung and a French Choir completes the truly international mass.

Poker Run

coming soon

The Abbeville Cultural & Historical Alliance Center is the home of the display depicting the History of the Giant Omelette. Please take a few minutes to visit the center located across from Magdalen Square.