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Name: Libby and Lucky Bagby

Address: P.O. Box 445, Roaring Gap, NC 28668

Phone: 336-363-2966

e-mail: esbagby@hotmail.com

Website: www.luckysplott.com

Biographical Information: http://www.luckysplott.com/libbyluckyinfo.htm

Books In Print: Lucky's Plott

Programs/workshops offered: Presentation is entitled "Staying on Track with Lucky's Plott," which gives information about Lucky's rescue and facts about NC's state breed, the Plott Hound. the presentation covers 4th grade curriculum on how an object becomes a state symbol and teaches the historyof our state's courageous hunting hound.

Age/grade level of preferred audience: 4th and 5th grade

Fees: $175 per presentation of 75 students plus mileage and accomodations if necessary.

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Address: 165 Lumina Place

Holly Springs, NC 27540

Phone: 919-557-7633

Fax: 919-557-9797

e-mail: ccranelit@aol.com

website: www.carolcrane.org

Biographical Information:

Author Carol Crane is a national education speakerr using trade books as a source for immersing into the curriculum. See website!

Carol Crane, with thirty-five years experience in children's literature as an educational consultant, has become widely recognized by many schools and educators for her expertise in children's literature. She has conducted in-service seminars for teachers at many schools across the country. Carol also works with children as an author. At a recent reading conference at the University of Alabama, she was described as, ---"A walking, talking bibliography of children's books."

With respect to furthering the education process through reading, Mrs. Crane is actively involved with the MICHIGAN READING ASSOCIATION, FLORIDA READING ASSOCIATION, INTERNATIONAL READING ASSOCIATION, THE WHOLE LANGUAGE UMBRELLA and NCTE. Her thematic approach to learning has been widely accepted and successfully used by many reading teachers.

Nine years ago, Mrs. Crane instituted a summer reading program. Teachers, media specialists and librarians have attended her "Bed, Breakfast and Books" seminars across the country. The assembling of attending authors, pre-publications of children's books, and sharing of ideas among fellow teachers has been a very important reading event.

In October 2000 a new book authored by Mrs. Crane was released. S is for Sunshine, a Florida Alphabet, which brings together the flora and fauna, geography and history of the Sunshine State with entertaining poems and fascinating facts for young children. It won the National Book Award for the state of Florida. In October 2001 a new book called Sunny Numbers was released, also a book about Florida with a math and science theme. In addition, L is for Lone Star, a Texas Alphabet was published in the fall of 2001. In March 2002, L is for the Last Frontier, an Alaska Alphabet was released. In the fall of 2002, two new state books were available P is for Peach, a Georgia Alphabet and P is for Palmetto, a South Carolina Alphabet. In the spring of 2003, Y is for Yellowhammer, an Alabama Alphabet was released as well as T is for Tar Heel, a North Carolina Alphabet.

Also, in the fall of 2003 a Thanksgiving book , P is for Pilgrim, A Thanksgiving Alphabet encompassing core democratic values, was published as well as a new number book for Texas called Roundup!!

Wright Numbers, A North Carolina Number Book was released in the fall of 2005.

Sleeping Bear Press the publisher has a web page. The address is sleepingbearpress.com. A teacher's resource guide may be downloaded for many of the alphabet books. These guides list multiple activities for each letter.

Books In Print: Wright Numbers, A North Carolina Number Book; T is for Tar Heel, A North Carolina Alphabet; P is for Pilgrim, A Thanksgiving Alphabet; P is for Palmetto, A South Carolina Alphabet; S is for Sunshine, A Florida Alphabet; L is for Lone Star, A Texas Alphabet; L is for the Last Frontier, An Alaska Alphabet; P is for Peach, A Georgia Alphabet; Y is for Yellowhammer, An Alabama Alphabet; D is for Dancing Dragon; Net Numbers, A South Carolina Number Book. Sunny Numbers (paper)

Programs/workshops offered:

Reading, research and writing using the alphabet books as a model. Student work from different schools will be shown.

Age/grade level of preferred audience: Grades 3 - 7

Fees: $750.00 a day - 3 sessions

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Name: Kevin Duffus

Address: P.O. Box 98985, Raleigh, NC 27624-8985

Phone: (919) 845 - 9244

e-mail: kevin_duffus@earthlink.net

website: www.thelostlight.com

Biographical Information: Kevin P. Duffus is an award-winning filmmaker, researcher, author, and investigative journalist of historical events. At the age of 17, duffus found, explored and identified a sunken vessel in Chicod Creek off the Tar River, for the first time proving it to be an scuttled 120-foot Confederate gunboat, sunk prior to the capture of Washington, NC, by Union forces in 18862.

In the 1980s, as executive producer of Raleigh television station WRAL-TV, Duffus broadcast pioneering live and tape news broadcasts and programs via satellite from Plymouth and Portsmouth, England, for events honoring North Carolina's 400th anniversary.

In 2002, he solved the 140-year-old Civil war mystery of the lost Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Fresnel lens. As a result, he wrote the book, The Lost Light, which follows the lens' historic and tragic path to the present.

His three-hour public television documentary, War Zone--World war Two Off north Carolina's Outer Banks, preserves the stories of merchant sailors, lifesavers, residents of island communities, and the remarkable "baby born in a lifeboat," during the devastating German Uboat attacks of 1942.

In 2006, after many years of photographic research, Duffus published his second book, Shipwrecks of the Outer Banks, featuring over 250 photographs of past and present shipwrecks and wreck artifacts, along with GPS locations and directions to dozens of wreck sites. The foreword of the book was written by Duffus' friend and mentor, David Stick, who has described the volume as the long-awaited photographic cimpanion to his nearly six-decade-old and still in print, Graveyard of the Atlantic.

And for more than 35 years, Duffus, a life-long sailor, has followed the wake of Black Beard the Pirate's journey through history. along the way he claims to have observed that many historical accounts describing the notorious pirate's lasst days - the six months following the wreck of his flagship, Queen Ann' Revenge at Beaaufort Inlet--were inaccurate, insufficiently researched, and as iit turned out, not nearly as interesting as the truth. In 2008 Duffus published his latest book, The Last Days of Black Beard the Pirate.

Programs/Workshops Offered:

Lecture topics include: How Shipwrecks Shaped the Destiny of NC's Outer Banks; The Lost Light - How a History Detective Solved One of the Great Mysteries of U.s. Lighthouse History; War Zone --How the Allies Almost Lost WWII Off NC's Coast; Blackbeard --Historical hoax versus the True facts Based on Original documents.

Books In Print:

The Last Days of Black Beard the Pirate; Shipwrecks of the outer Banks; The Lost Light

DVDs Available: War Zone; Graveyard of the Atlantic; Shipwrecks of the Outer Banks

Age/grade level of preferred audience: 8th and up

Fees: $250 plus travel expenses. Libraries may apply for grants through the NC Humanities Council.

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Name: Julia Taylor Ebel

Address: P.O. Box 11, Jamestown, NC 27282

Phone: (336) 454-1957

e-mail: ebel@northstate.net

website: www.juliaebel.com

Biographical Information: Julia Taylor Ebel is author of Addie Clawson, Appalachian Mail Carrier (Parkway Publisher's 2003), Walking Ribbon (Viewpoint Press), Orville Hicks: Mountain Stories, Mountain Roots (Parkway Publishers) and Dress, Dreams and Beadwood Leaves (High Country Publishers, 2008). Much of her research and inspiration for writing comes from the North Carolina mountains near Boone. Nature, family and culture history provide subjects.

Over 30 of her nature poems have been published in children's magazines, including Cricket, Spider and Pockets. For 14 years, she has taught renewal classes for GTCC on various aspects of juvenile literature and reading with children. She also tutors privately.

Programs/Workshops Offered:

Available for School Visits

Presentations on Addie Clawson, Appalachian Mail Carrier, can include

• Writing Addie Clawson, Appalachian Mail Carrier: The process of researching, writing, editing, and illustration of books for children: Why did I write about Addie Clawson? Where do we get ideas for writing? Who picks the illustrator? How many times does an author rewrite?
• Addie Clawson and North Carolina History Connection: What do we learn of North Carolina history from Addie Clawson? How has the geography of the mountains affected lifestyle there? Where was Tweetsie before it was in the amusement park? What role did Tweetsie have in mail delivery? What glimpses do we get of US Postal Service history in Addie?
• Strong Females in Children's Literature: What strengths does Addie Clawson display? What other books share examples of strong females? What is the difference between a hero or heroine and a role model? What examples do we see in books of heroines and role models?
• Getting Started with Writing: Where did the idea for Addie's story originate? Where can young writers look for their own story ideas?
• The Art of Letter Writing: Addie Clawson delivered letters. Why do we write letters? To whom would you like to write? What would you say?

• Focusing Your Poem: Choosing a subject and point of view. Narrowing the focus to make the poem sharper and more intense
• The Shape of a Poem: What makes a group of words a poem? Does a poem have to rhyme? What difference does the shape make? How do we decide where to break lines? What kinds of words sound appealing together?
• Drawing from the Senses: using all the senses when writing
• Collaborative or Individual Poems: Writing a poem as a class or individually

Books In Print:

Addie Clauson, Appalachian Mail Carrier; Walking Ribbon; Orville Hicks: Mountain Stories, Mountain Roots; Dresses, Dreams and Beadwood Leaves.

Age/grade level of preferred audience:

Fees: $300 - $500 (Negotiable) for schools. Travel expenses may be added.

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Name: Kathleen Ernst

Address: 7307 Vista Court, Middlleton, WI 53562

Phone: (608) 836-9218

e-mail: k.ernst@kathleenernst.com

website: www.kathleenernst.com

Biographical Information: Kathleen Ernst is an historica novelist, social historian, and educator. Her historical fiction for children and young adults includes Betrayal at Cross Creek, a mystery about a young Scottish girl who immigrates to North Carolina with her family during the American Revolution. Betrayal at Cross Creek received the Arthur Tofte Juvenile Fiction Award, the Flora MacDonald Award from St. Andrew's Presbyterian College, nominations for the Agatha Award from Malice Domestic and the Historical Fiction Award from Disney Adventures Magazine and a spot on the "Children's Book Sense Picks" list. Kathleen has also written a contemporary novel for young adults, Highland Fling, which explores both the celebration of Scottish heritage found at Highland Games and the possibility of ancestral memory.

Kathleen has written fourteen novels for young readers and one nonfiction book for adults. She has also published essays, articles, and poetry. When not traveling to do research Kathleen lives, writes, and teaches in Wisconsin. She has a Masters Degree in History Education and Writing from Antioch University, where her self-designed program focused on nontraditioanl methods of teaching and learning history--especially historical fiction. She served for twelve years as a Curator of Education and Collections with the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Historic Sites Division, and spent another decade developing and scripting instructional video programs for Wisconsin Public Television. Her honors include an Emmy Award, a Wilbur Schramm Award of Excellence, a Children's Literature Award from the Society of Midland Authors, and an Edgar Award nomination from Mystery Writers of America.

Programs/Workshops Offered:

1. Author visits - interactive conversations with students about writing and publishing

2. Historical fiction writing workshops

3. Behind the Scenes - slide program taking students from idea to book, emphasizing research and revision.

Books In Print:

Betrayal at Cross Creek; Highland Fling; The Runaway Friend; Hearts of Stone; The Ghosts of Vicksburg; Too Afraid to Cry; Trouble at Fort La Pointe;Whistler in the Dark; Danger at the Zoo; Secrets in the Hills; Midnight in Lonesome Holler; Ghosts of Vicksburg; The Night Riders of Harpers Ferry; The Bravest Girl in Sharpsburg; Retreat from Gettysburg

Age/grade level of preferred audience: Elementary or middle school

Fees: $500/day plus expenses.

Address: P.O. Box 7183, Wilmington, NC 28406

Phone: 910- 538-4076

e-mail: dramtreebooks@ec.rr.com

website: www.dramtreebooks.com 

Biographical Information:

Jack Fryar is a life-long resident of southeastern North Carolina, born and raised in Wilmington. He has been a professional writer and publisher since 1994. In 2000, he founded Dram Tree Books, a small publishing house whose titles tell the story of coastal North Carolina's vivid and exciting history. Jack has been a professional sports announcer and a radio announcer, and founded The Writer's Roundtable writer's conference at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Books In Print: The Coastal Chronicles Volume I, The Coastal Chronicles Volume II, and A History Lover's Guide to Wilmington & The Lower Cape Fear. In the The Young Reader’s Series of North Carolina History, Jack wrote The Battles for Fort Fisher, "King George and Broadswords!" The Battle at Widow Moores Creek, Pirates of the North Carolina Coas; The Yellow Death!Wilmington and the Epidemic of 1862; and Under Three flags! The Fort Johnston Story. He co-authored The Story of Brunswick Town & Fort Anderson with Franda D. Pedlow. Jack also edited Blue Tide Rising: A Memoir of the Union Army in North Carolina by Major General Jacob D. Cox, Lossing’s Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution in the Carolinas & Georgia by Benson J. Lossing, and Derelicts, by James Sprunt and The Big Book of the Cape Far River by Claude V. Jackson.

Programs/workshops offered:

I am capable of speaking on a wide range of topics related to North Carolina history, especially as it applies to the Cape Fear region and the North Carolina coast.

Age/grade level of preferred audience: Third grade and up, although I'll talk to any.

Fees: Gas, plus lodging if distances dictate an overnight stay. Otherwise the only fee is that I be allowed to sell books at the event.

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Name: Stephanie Greene

Address: 2320 New Hope Church Road,

Chapel Hill, NC 27514

Phone: (919) 942-4732

E-mail: scgbooks@aol.com

Fax: (919) 942-1846

Website: www.stephaniegreenebooks.com

Biographical Information: Stephanie Greene is the author of more than 17 books for children, including early readers, chapter books, and middle grade novels. She is a graduate of Vermont College with a MFA in writing for children and young adults. She has been the Regional Advisor of the North Carolina chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

Books in Print:

Her new books, The Lucky Ones, published in the fall of 2008, and Christmas at Stony Creek published in the fall of 2007, are now available.

For other titles visit:

http://www.visitingauthors.com/books/greene_stephanie_books/greene_stephanie_books.html

Full information about her books, biography, programs, and fees can be found on www.Visitingauthors.com

Age/grade level of preferred audience: Grades 1-5.

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Name: Francie Hall 

Address: P.O. Box 541, Valle Crucis, North Carolina 28691

Phone: (828) 297-1194 or (828) 773 - 4639

e-mail: franciehall@mac.com

Biographical Information:

Francie, the author of APPALACHIAN ABC'S has served as a radio control operator for Jungle Aircraft in Suriname, South America, as a television writer/producer in Kenya, East Africa, and a teacher/administrator in Watauga County Schools in Boone, North Carolina. She is currently writing, speaking, and storytelling. She is available to share her book, speak about writing, tell stories, or give a presentation about the countries of Kenya or Suriname.

Books In Print: Appalachian ABC's; Scottish Highland Games; Appalachian Christmas ABCs

Programs/workshops offered:

I am able to do writing workshops for 4th-8th grades. I have also done some workshops for gifted students. I incorporate experiences and artifacts of my years in Africa.

Age/grade level of preferred audience: 4th-8th grades

Fees: negotiable - based on distance and time

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Name: Joyce Moyer Hostetter 

Address: 4208 Hickory Lincolnton Hwy, Newton, NC 28658-8691

Phone: 704-462-4760

e-mail: moyergirl@twave.net

website: www.joycemoyerhostetter.com

Biographical Information:

Joyce Moyer Hostetter is an educator who has worked with children in public schools, camp, church, and home school. Ultimately, however, she couldn't resist the urge to write. Best Friends Forever is a story of friendship between a Ukrainian Orthodox girl and an American Mennonite. Hostetter's award-winning novel Blue tells the story of North Carolina's 1944 polio epidemic. Her latest book Healing Water takes place in Hawaii's leprosy settlement in 1869. Visit Joyce online at www.joycemoyerhostetter.com..

Books In Print:

Best Friends Forever

Blue

Healing Water

Programs/workshops offered:

Power Point Programs:

Blue and The Miracle of Hickory

You got that Right///Write! (getting published)

Polio and the President (FDR and Disability Rights)

Age/grade level of preferred audience: Elementary/middle

Fees: Travel and other expenses; honorarium - $350/day; $600.00 full.

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Name: Gloria Houston 

Address: Cheryl Thompson, 3022 Planters Walk Court, Charlotte, NC 28210

Phone: Cheryl Thompson (704) 542 - 6497

e-mail: ghinc@charter.net

website: www.gloriahouston.net

Biographical Information: Dr. Gloria Houston earned her Master's and Doctorate degrees at the University of South Florida, Tampa and was formerly a professor and author-in-residence at USF as well as founder of the Suncoast Young Authors Conference, USF. She has been an educator for grades K-12 throughout the Bay Area and her writing textbook How Writing Works: Imposing Organizational Structure Within The Writing Process has been a best-seller among writers and teachers. As a teacher, she was fondly known as "Ms. Mac" to her students.

Dr. Houston has written many classics such as My Great Aunt Arizona (Smithsonian Treasure and Family Channel Best Books List), Mountain Valor (nominated for the Newberry Medal) and the multi-award winning Littlejim books.

Most recently, Dr. Houston donated the rights to her most well-known book, The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree, to help save her childhood hometown of Spruce Pine, NC. The results have been amazing, creating 31 new businesses, new employment for over 1,000 people who were under- or unemployed, and hope to an otherwise dying community.

Word of this creative and unique endeavor spread to the White House, where First Lady Laura Bush, familiar with Houston's books, chose to honor the town and Houston's efforts by featuring items from the town in this year's White House Christmas decorations at the East Wing entrance and the Oval Office doorway.

Dr. Houston is a multi-award winning author and educator honored in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Education, Outstanding Women of the Twenty-First Century and Contemporary Authors as well as other references.

Books Available:

The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree (hardcover, softcover, CD); My Great Aunt Arizona (hardcover and softcover); Mountain Valor (hardcover); Littlejim (softcover); Bright Freedom's Song (hardcover); How Writing Works.

Programs/workshops offered:

Author presentations

Writing workshops for faculty or students

A family history writing project for students or faculty

Age/grade level of preferred audience: any- but divided by age

Fees:

School presentations to students - $1500.00 (3 presentations) - 1 hour

Staff development/faculty - $2000/day (2 - 2hour presentations)

And expenses

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Address: 1337 Biltmore Dr., Charlotte, NC 28207

Phone: (704) 334 - 9344

e-mail: billandhelen37@earthlink.net

Biographical Information:

Helen Marley was raised in Winston-Salem where the story, Behind the High Board Fence, is set. She has had a career in teaching and observing her own children and her students as they responded to the spark of literature. She now lives with her husband, Bill, in Charlotte, North Carolina

Books In Print:

Behind the High Board Fence

Programs/workshops offered:

There are a wealth of stories to share about writing Behind the High Board Fence: 1) the children in the family facing a year of chalenges; 2) exciting time in the growth of North Carolina; 3) inspiration for and the process of writing this book.

Age/grade level of preferred audience: Elementary - 3rd or 4th grade

Fees: None

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Address: 10405 Golden Leaf Court, Charlotte, NC 28277

Phone: (704) 542-1052

E-mail: emilyspearce@yahoo.com

website: www.emilysmithpearce.com

For appearances and school visits, contact: bettyasmith@bellsouth.net

Biographical Information:

Emily Smith Pearce grew up in South Carolina. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.F.A. in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermon College. She lives with her husband and their two children in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Books In Print: Isabel and the Miracle Baby

Programs/workshops offered:

I have a Power Point presentation about how I became a writer, with suggestions for young writers. I can also provide writing workshops.

Age/grade level of preferred audience: Grades 3-5.

Fees:

$500 - $700 depending on location and logistics, plus traveling expenses.

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Address: 1116 Poole Drive, Garner, North Carolina 27529

Phone: (919) 661-5722

E-mail: amr-illustrations@nc.rr.com

Website: www.annerunyon.com

Biographical Information:

Anne Marshall Runyon was born in Washington,DC. Quiet summers on Ocracoke Island nurtured a lifelong interest in the natural world. Anne studied art and design in college in Minnesota. She is a member of both the Guild of Natural Science illustrators, and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI).

Anne contributes the activity for the WILD Notebook section of Wildlife in North Carolina magazine. She writes and illustrates for the magazine as well. Her plover illustrations won first place in the SCBWI 2007 Magazine merit competition, Illustration Category.

Anne's artwork is featured in environmental education publications and exhibits throughout North Carolina. Tthe NC Zoological Park, the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Wake County's Nature Parks and many NC State Parks.)

Anne enjoys sharing her love of art and nature. Please visit her website (www.annerunyon.com). There you can see some of her artwork, and read the story of Crooked Jaw, a fine snake friend.

In Print Titles relating to North Carolina:
The Sheltering Cedar

Mountain Fishes of North Carolina (book and poster)

North Carolina's Wild Places, A Closer Look

Programs/workshops offered:

1) Short reading/presentation of The Sheltering Cedar - followed by a "craft"- making of a related paper sculpture. About 1/2hour to 1 hour in length.

2) Creating my NC plant or animal Paper Sculptures - about 40 minutes

I will taylor my presentation to my audience. I like to discuss this with the teacher/librarian in charge -looking to complement their curriculum

Age/grade level of preferred audience: Elementary grades; Also for families at libraries.

Fees: $100-300. Fee depends on travel and the number and type of presentations. (Also Iwill charge for cost of supplies for crafts: usually low - just cost of copies of my designs).

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Name: Lynn Salsi

Address: 3103 Henderson Road, Greensboro, NC 27410

Phone: 336-547-9315 ; cell 336-655-2717

e-mail: BSALSI@triad.rr.com

website: www.lsalsi.com

Biographical Information: Lynn grew up in Columbia, SC and graduated with a BA in Journalism from the University of South Carolina. She spent most of her childhood summers in Franklin, NC exploring and collecting artifacts and rocks with her father who was a noted "rock hound."

She always enjoyed listening to family stories about the old days, making it through the Great Depression and the old home place. She says that the stories came because her mother used to say, "We come from a long line of talkers." She admits to collecting stories like some people collect match books, or china, or dolls. That's how she began talking to other people about their family history. When Ray Hicks asked her to "take down" his version of the Jack Tales she didn't stop there. She turned the story of his life into Young Ray Hicks Learns to Tell the Jack Tales.

Books in Print:  

Appalachian Jack Tales; the Life and Times of Ray Hicks; Firefight; Young Ray Hicks Learns to Tell the Jack Tales; Portsmouth Island Outer Banks Treasure, Guilford County, Heart of the Piedmont, Columbia, SC, A Southern Capital, Images of Carteret County, Images of Craven County, Voices of the Crystal Coast, The History of NC State University, The North Carolina Imagination Box

Programs:

The Appalachian Story Quilt-a lively presentation of stories of real people from the 1800s to the present. This program illustrates the unique culture of the Appalachian Mountains. Handmade quilts are used to tell the stories. The history of the Jack Tales is included.(for grades 3 - adult)

The History of North Carolina in 40 Minutes -This is a fun-filled very fast paced presentation of how North Carolina became settled. This presentation particularly covers the various cultures who came between 1565 and 1800. It includes articles from old newspapers, funny stories, polices and laws, transportation (the importance of and what was done). This makes history fun. This also works well with 4 or 5 student assistants.(for grades 3 - adult)

The Jack Tales- This presentation can be tailored for K through adult. The old Jack Tales based on the traditional stories from 1770s are told using audience participation, sound effects, pantomime, and exaggeration. It includes the story of how Ray Hicks received the tales from a line of decendancy from the 1770s. This program is fascinating and fun for all ages.

Note: Lynn is experienced in working with students and teachers. She spent eight years as a children's playwright and theatre director. She has a knack for working with classroom readers theatre, tandem storytelling, and story drama. She teaches teacher re-certification at two community colleges. Her specialties are reading across the curriculum, writing for fourth to eighth grade, storytelling, and NC history.

Fee:

Various - depends on author visit, inservice, or storytelling; one author or both.

Note:

1. Lynn does not mind being co-oped by two schools on the same day if they are not far apart and there is time for her to have lunch between appearances.

2. She is happy to sign books.

3. She can furnish teaching materials in advance of a vis it.

4. She likes to talk to students in classrooms as well as main stage presentations. She enjoys the feedback that students give her.

4. She is willing to talk with teachers or students over lunch. Some schools request that she have lunch with students who are avid writers or who have won a reading competition at school.

5. If a school is planning an all day Appalachian festival or an author's day talk to her about bringing her balladeer who plays the fiddle, dulcimer, banjo, harmonica, and guitar. They do an impressive main stage program together and split up to visit various classrooms. Her illustrator is sometimes available.

Age/grade level of preferred audience:

Lynn is available for elementary, middle school, teacher in-service.

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Name: Donna Campbell Smith 

Address: PO Box 1372, Wake Forest, NC 27588

Phone: 919-494-5945

e-mail: donnacsmith@earthlink.net

website: www.donnacampbellsmith.com/

Biographical Information:

Donna Campbell Smith grew up just a few miles inland from North Carolina’s Outer Banks. She only dreamed of having a horse when she was a little girl, and wasn’t aware that wild horses roamed free on some of the coastal islands where she loved to visit with her parents on numerous fishing trips.

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Donna grew up, and became a professional in the horse industry as an instructor, breeder and trainer. She relied on her thirty years of experience with horses and children, and her lifetime fascination with the history of the Outer Banks to write two historical novels for young readers: Pale as the Moon and An Independent Spirit. She has also written three non-fiction books, The Book of Miniature Horses (Lyons Press 2005.) and The Book of Draft Horses: The Horse That Built the World, (The Lyons Press 2007), and The Book of Mules and Other Equine Hybrids, which, will be released by Lyons Press in 2008.

In addition, Smith does freelance writing for several regional and national magazines including Stable Management Magazine, USA Equestrian, Young Rider, The Chronicle of the Horse, Boys Life, The Gaited Horse, Our State, Carolina Country and Conquistador.

Donna Campbell Smith has an AAS Degree in Equine Technology from Martin Community College, where she also took extended courses in art and composition. She is a certified riding instructor and has served many years as a Master NC 4-H Horse Program Volunteer. She now teaches riding in Franklinton, NC.
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Books In Print:
Pale as the Moon and An Independent Spirit: The Tale of Betsy Dowdy and Black Bess have been re-published by Faithful Publishing and we are enjoying their continued success as supplemental reading in NC elementary classrooms. Pale as the Moon ties into the Lost Colony mystery from the American Indian perspective. This book will be appropriate for fourth grade students learning North Carolina history and fifth graders learning American Indian history and US colonial history. This book is recommended by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and selected by Renaissance Learning's Accelerated Reader Program.

An Independent Spirit takes place during the onset of the American Revolution and will work well for fourth grade North Carolina history students and those fifth graders learning about the American Colonial Period. It is based on the legend of Betsy Dowdy who rode her Banker Pony. Black Bess, fifty-one miles to warn, “theBritish are coming!”

The Adventures of Size 8 T-Shirt (Faithful Publishing, paperback, to be released 2008) is a children’ picture book. Readers follow the life of the shirt, first as Mary Beth’s favorite t-shirt, purchased in an Outer Banks gift shop. It has a fatal injury when it is ripped in an accident. Then, begins its journey in the recycling center, where it is broken down into fibers and remade into a brand new shirt. Children can learn at a young age the value of recycling clothes and other textiles, which take up to 50% of the space in our landfills.

Non-fiction titles from The Lyons Press: The Book of Miniature Horses, The Book of Draft Horses, and The Book of Mules.

Programs/workshops offered:

My school author visits include these presentations: Lifestyles of Coastal American Indians, Galloping Through History (NC’s wild horses), and Living the American Colonial Life. My visit can be adjusted for language arts students with a writing workshop. Each program runs about 40 minutes per class.

I am also available for a five-day writer-in-residence program using historical fiction to teach the writing process.

Age/grade level of preferred audience: 3rd - 8th grades

Fees:

My fee is $400 per day, plus expenses for locations over 50 miles from my home in Franklin County. I can do up to four sessions per day. Call me for “home rates.”

The fee for the five day writer-in-residence program is $1200 plus expenses.

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E-mail: ablessing@members.authorsguild.net

Website: www.eleanoraetate.com

Biographical Information:

Eleanora E. Tate, a native of Canton, Missouri, spent her first grade in a one-room school. She was graduated from Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, and after majoring in journalism (news editorial), was graduated from Drake University there. She was news editor of the Iowa Bystander weekly newspaper, and a reporter for the Des Moines Register and Tribune newspapers. Among other reference encyclopedias, she is included in Gale Research's Contemporary Black Biographies, volume 20; Something About the Author; and Who's Who Among African Americans. She is a 1981 Bread Loaf Fellow.

Ms. Tate is a member of Concerned Citizens Operation Reach-Out Organization, North Carolina Writers' Network, The Authors Guild, and Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. The 1991-92 national president of the National Association of Black Storytellers, Inc., Ms. Tate and her husband, noted photographer Zack E. Hamlett, III, currently live in Knightdale, North Carolina.

Ms. Tate speaks widely on children's literature in schools, libraries, on college campuses, and at conferences. She was a featured speaker at the 1995 Whole Language Umbrella in Windsor, Ontario Canada; at the 1996 Fifth Regional Caribbean Conference of the International Reading Association in Hamilton, Bermuda; a 2002 featured "Avid Author" for the Des Moines Public Library, Des Moines, Iowa; and a featured speaker at the American Library Author Award" honoree.

Ms. Tate wrote her first short story when she was in third grade, and she's been writing ever since. Her books celebrate neighborhoods, communities, and the children and families who live there. She is the author of eleven titles including works of contemporary fiction, biographies, and historical fiction. She brings an authentic "neighborhoods and communities" perspective to her middle grade novels. Her newest book Celeste's Harlem Renaissance, set in both Raleigh, NC and Harlem, NY in 1921, is the 2007 NC(AAUW) Book Award Winner in Juvenile Literature, and a 2008 "IRA Teachers' Choice Award" winner. To Be Free, The Secret of Gumbo Grove, Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.! and A Blessing In Disguise are also set in the Carolinas. Tate is also the author of The Minstrel's Melody, an American Girl History Mystery, Front Porch Stories at the One Room School, and the popular non-fiction titles African American Musicians and Retold African Myths.

Books In Print:

Celeste's Harlem Renaissance

The Minstrel's Melody; Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.!; The Secret of Gumbo Grove; African American Musicians; A Blessing in Disguise; Just an Overnight Guest; Retold African Myths; To Be Free.

Programs/workshops offered:

Contact Eleanora E. Tate at her website www.eleanoraetate.com

Age/grade level of preferred audience: Ages 8 - 12 in elementary schools

Fees: Contact Eleanora E. Tate at her website www.eleanoraetate.com.

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Address: 117 Falkner, Greensboro, NC 27410

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Books in Print:

The Cows Are in the Corn

Puppies in the Snow

Young Ray Hicks Learns the Jack Tales (illustrator)

Appalachian Jack Tales (illustrator)

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Name: John Golden 

Address: 5122 Clear Run Drive, Wilmington, NC 28403

Phone: 910-395-2014

e-mail: johncgolden@ec.rr.com

Biographical Information: Professional storyteller since 1986. Born and raised in South Florida, he worked 34 years as a Civil Engineer with US Army Corps of engineers and retired in 1996. He lives in Wilmington, NC, with wife Mary Ellen, a noted watercolor artist. John Golden has been telling and singing coastal folklore since 1985 and has performed in 15 NC school systems, and numerous museums, public libraries and historic sites. He has recorded 8 CDs of folk music from colonial to Civil War to sea songs . Storyteller of the Year (2003) awarded by North Carolina's Storytelling Guild.

Compact Disks Available:

Shipwrecks and Sea Songs, Vols.Iand II; Colonial Songs and Scottish Ballads; Hatteras Memories

Programs/workshops offered: : Living history performannce of Coastal Carolina characters and legends, such as the Lost colony, pirates, colonial life and blockade runners. Music and songs are interwoven, with stories for sing-a-long, clap-a-long and audience particiaption.

Age/grade level of preferred audience: 4th, 5th and 8th grades

Fees: $600 - $900 per day depending on travel time and number of programs (up to 3 per day).

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Name: String Celebration (Ken Lankford and Beth Corzine) 

Address: 519 Patrick Street, Eden, NC 27288

Phone: (336) 402 -1828

e-mail: ken@stringcelebration.com

Website: www.stringcelebration.com

Biographical Information: Beth Corzine and Ken Lankford, of Eden, NC, are String Celebration.

As a certified teacher (BS, MA, Elementary Education), former Kindermusik® instructor and licensed Musikgarten® instructor, Beth combines professional classroom skills with her command of many instruments, including 12-string guitar, bowed psaltery, lap and hammered dulcimers and a variety of percussion items.

Ken’s long experience in musical entertainment and writing has earned him appearances on television, radio and before many groups in the U.S. and Canada. He is also a licensed Musikgarten® instructor and a guitar teacher. The duo’s vocal blends combine traditional and original material with clever musical arrangements to keep the audience eager to hear and learn more.

Compact Disks Available:

CD is in production.

Programs/workshops offered: We offer schools 5 programs: 1) "Carolina Culture"; 2) "Read For Your Life"; 3) "Multicultural Musical Mix"; 4) "The String Show"; 5) "Sounds of Science". Please see our webiste for more information. For libraries we adapt our shows to the Summer Reading Program theme chosen each year. Each show has a Pk-2 version and a 3-5 grade version.

Age/grade level of preferred audience: Pk-2 and 3-5 grades.

Fees: One show - $600;two shows (same day): $750; three shows (same day): -$900. If two or more schools book shows together, we'll give 10% off to both schools.

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