Ernest's Gift
Kathryn Tucker Windham
Illustrated by Frank Hardy

Junebug Books
978-1-58838-149-1
$16.95 hardcover 
20 pages
Children/Young Adult

On the occasion of the centennial of the public library in historic Selma, Alabama, beloved storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham relates the true story of Ernest Dawson. When he was a boy in the 1930s, segrigation laws had barred Dawson from using the Selma library. But his love of books and his eagerness to learn was strong, and he eventually became a teacher. Years later, he bequeathed to the Selma library money for a children's wing so that other eager young readers of all races would always have a place in Selma to find magic through books.