Guest: Dr. Gloria Houston

Thursday, April 8, 1999
Students: Transcript

Dr. Gloria Houston is a native of Spruce Pine, North Carolina and is known throughout the United States as an educator and author of children's and young adult books.

During the Town Meetings, students will be able to ask the author questions about her writings and life as a North Carolina author.

Students are encouraged to read books by Dr. Houston before the meeting. Classes are encouraged to discuss the books and create questions that they would like to ask the author. Teaching resources can be found on her Internet site.

• But no candy c1992
• Littlejim c1990
• Littlejim's gift: an Appalachian Christmas story c1994
• Littlejim's dreams c1997
• Mountain Valor c1994
• My great-aunt Arizona c1992
• The year of the perfect Christmas tree c1988
• Bright freedom's song: a story of the underground railroad

http://www.ceap.wcu.edu/Houston/GloriaHouston.html

A native of Spruce Pine, NC, Dr. Gloria Houston is widely known as an educator and children's author. Her award-winning books, set in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, often feature stories from the lives of her family members. The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree was on Publisher's Weekly 1988 Best Seller List, the International Reading Association's Teacher's Choices List, and ACE's Best Books of 1988 List; it was also a nominee for the 1993 N.C. Children's Book Award. Her young adult novel Littlejim was also selected for the IRA Teacher's Choices List.

Other works include Littlejim's Gift (1994) and My Great-Aunt Arizona (1992). Dr. Houston also created IBM's "Tell Me a Story," winner of the National Literacy Award from Partnerships in Education.

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