Julia Taylor Ebel is the author of six North Carolina books:Addie Clawson, Rural Appalachian Mail Carrier, Orville Hicks: Mountain Stories, Mountain Roots; Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns As Told by Orville Hicks; The Picture Man (Parkway Publishers); Dresses, Dreams and Beadwood Leaves(High Country Publishers/ Ingalls); and Walking Ribbon (Viewpoint Press). Much of her research and inspiration for writing comes from North Carolina's mountains and Piedmont.Nature, family, and cultural history provide subjects.Over 50 of her nature poems have been published in children's magazines, including Cricket, Spider and Pockets.For 17 years, she has taught teacher renewal classes for GTCC on various aspects of juvenile literature and reading with children.She also tutors privately.
Dresses, Dreams and Beadwood Leaves:a growing-up story of an Appalachian
farm girl, told in a series of free verse poems, with the author’s sketches. Ages 8 to
98.(Poetry, social studies, native plants and herb gathering, math, character) This
story won a book award from The North Carolina Society of Historians.