My Home Town: A Fairy Tale of Two Cities

Guarantee your children's success in life, read to them! Ensure high academic achievement for your students, read to them! This book of rhyme shows the negative effects of nonreaders in our communities and the positive influence proficient readers can have in our cities. Reading is key.

Dot Powell, after retirement as an elementary school principal, served as Executive Director of the nonprofit, READFresno, which focused on community-wide literacy in a region of high poverty and illiteracy. Dot saw dire consequences in the lives of non-readers and the "hometown hardships" due to the lack of reading. She wanted to do something about it and recruited hundreds of volunteers to read to young students. Dot Powell's influence in education has had a significant impact on teachers and students throughout Fresno County. She mentored nine Hmong girls in developing life skills and building academic success from primary grades through college. Dot is co-founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit, SALT Fresno, based on Matthew 5:13-16. Her purpose is to inspire Christ-followers to go public with their faith through good deeds. She is a magazine publisher, author, and co-founder of a Central California Christian writer's critique group, Twinklings.