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Book Festival Delta City Library, October 28 at 7:00 pm and November 4 at 7:00 pm |
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Featuring authors Terrell Dougan and Obert Skye Terrell Dougan
Terrell Harris Dougan grew up in Salt Lake City. She has been a humor columnist, night club singer, actress in local musicals, Brownie leader, fitness instructor (amphibious: water and land), and served on more community boards than she wishes to count. She has an expired private pilot’s license and since she gave it up the skies are much safer for all of us. She still lives in Salt Lake City with her current husband Paul, to whom she has been married for half a century, but it could turn at any minute. Their two daughters and families inexplicably live five minutes away, and Terrell’s sister Irene lives just up the hill with companions who love her. Obert Skye
Obert Skye read his first book at age two. He wrote his first story at age four. And he was nearly trampled by a herd of water buffalo at age six. For a short time, he lived on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, where he spent time as a candy-taster. Several years ago, Obert Skye says, he discovered the existence of Foo. Publishing his story as a fictional series was not Obert’s first choice. Nevertheless he is content that the “history” is being told. |
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Terrell Dougan will offer an evening presentation on October 28 at 7:00 pm. at Delta City Library. Dougan’s recent book, That Went Well: Adventures in Caring for My Sister, describes the roller coaster ride Terrell Dougan and her family had trying to make her sister Irene’s life work. A birth injury in 1946 left Irene developmentally disabled. With no programs existing for special needs children at the time, Dougan’s father began the advocacy movement for these children in Utah. Dougan’s book describes how her family learned behavior modification for special needs children, and then applied it to legislators. It worked. That Went Well: Adventures in Caring for My Sister has made every literary book club (Book-of-the-Month, Literary Guild, and four others) as an alternate selection.
Obert Skye will offer an evening presentation on November 4 at 7:00 pm. at the Delta City Library. Skye is the author of the bestselling Even Thumps series. In his third and more recent installment, Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want, Leven Thump’s quest to stop the whispered secret and save all mankind carries on. The Leven Thumps series has sold more than 250,000 copies since its 2005 release. The first book in the series, Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo, was named 2005 Best Juvenile Fiction (Benjamin Franklin Award), Best Audio Book (Book-of-the-Year Award by ForeWord Magazine), and iParenting Media named the novel as one of the Best Books of 2007.