Authors Round the South

The Secret World of Walter Anderson has won the 2010 SIBA Book Award for Children's Books and is a Southern Indie Bestseller - Thank you, SIBA Booksellers!
An energetic performer who enjoys meeting readers, Hester grew up in rural Georgia to become a singer in a Boston rock band, New York actress, singing telegram messenger, and winner in the Hot Seat on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" - but likes being a writer best of all.
THE SECRET WORLD OF WALTER ANDERSON, illustrated by E.B. Lewis (Candlewick Press, 2009) is a picture book biography of perhaps the South's most intriguing artist, a man who risked everything to bring himself and nature into one thing called art.
THE SECRET WORLD OF WALTER ANDERSON won the 2010 Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children, given by the National Council of Teachers of English. The book is also an NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, on the 2010 CCBC Choices list, one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of the Year, Bank Street's Best Books of the Year, and was chosen to represent Mississippi in the Pavilion of the States at the 2009 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
SO MANY HOUSES, illustrated by Alik Arzoumanian (Scholastic Library Publishing, 2006) is a rhyming multicultural look at houses around the world for beginning readers. Available in paperback or library binding.
Have books, will travel. Loves tea and dark chocolate. To bring children and books together, contact Hester!