Dreams do come true! Whatever your dream may be, Hester's advice is: Never give up!
A storyteller, singer, actress, and teacher, Hester has presented keynotes and workshops at conferences, schools, libraries, museums, and festivals for students, writers, librarians, and teachers. She offered a workshop called Show Don't Tell: How Acting Techniques Improve Writing. Hester can "encourage the most reluctant reader to read and the hesitant student to write."
SEEDS OF FREEDOM: THE PEACEFUL INTEGRATION OF HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA
A little-known true story of the Civil Rights movement. Through courage, creativity, and cooperation, black and white citizens remained committed to nonviolence, providing an example for children today of how racial discrimination, bullying, and unfairness can be faced successfully with perseverance and ingenuity.
Starred Review Publishers Weekly: "Unflinchingly honest and jubilantly hopeful, this is nonfiction storytelling at its best." - Starred Review Booklist: "A valuable introduction to the civil rights period." - NCSS Carter G. Woodson Award Elementary Honor - Junior Library Guild - Bank Street Best - Parents' Choice Silver Honor - Kirkus: "A book that is as quietly inspiring as its subject." - Mississippi Library Association Author Award - National Book Festival - Review in Los Angeles Times - Column in Kirkus Reviews - AR Quiz # 172163
THE SECRET WORLD OF WALTER ANDERSON
The story of a man who risked everything to bring himself and nature into one thing called art. From his home on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Anderson would often row twelve miles of open water to reach Horn, an uninhabited barrier island, where he lived under his boat for weeks at a time so he could paint there.
NCTE ORBIS PICTUS AWARD for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children - SIBA BOOK AWARD - MISSISSIPPI LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AUTHOR AWARD - Bank Street Best - CCBC Choices - Kirkus Starred Review and Best Children's Books - NCSS Notable - National Book Festival - AR Quiz #134485
SO MANY HOUSES
Hester's first book was a Scholastic Rookie Reader® about materials used to build houses across the globe. In print for 10 years, it is now available on the used book market.
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Illustrations from Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama © and all rights reserved by E. B. Lewis. Published 2015/2018 by Candlewick Press.
Illustrations from The Secret World of Walter Anderson © and all rights reserved
by E. B. Lewis. Published 2009/2014 by Candlewick Press.
Illustrations from So Many Houses © and all rights reserved by Alik Arzoumanian. Published 2006 by Children's Press/Scholastic Library.