No-Count Dog going to Kentucky Book Fair!
Saturday, January 3, 2015 12:12 pm No-Count Dog is the story of the hound who went from nuisance to hero in forty picture book pages. The book's author, Mary Potter, will be one of 200 authors at this year's Kentucky Book Fair. Signed copies of No-Count Dog will be sold at the Kentucky Book Fair for $15.95. The 33rd Annual Kentucky Book Fair will take place at the Frankfort Convention Center from 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. EDT. The Kentucky Book Fair is co-sponsored by the Frankfort State Journal and the Kentucky Department of Libraries. Net proceeds of the Fair fund grants to Kentucky school and public libraries for local book purchasing and other literary related caused. Over the first 32 years, $368,000 has been donated. Recent grants include eight libraries : · Green Hills Elementary School in Harlan County received a grant for $1,000 to replace old, worn out paperbacks with new fiction books for grades four to eight. Author Mary Potter will be on hand to autograph No-Count Dog. Her first children's book was inspired by the plight of pets and pet lovers during Hurricane Katrina. She says the book is not just for children but for everyone who loves animals. Potter has donated copies of the book to schools and libraries. She and illustrator Jennifer Nuckolls have read to hundreds of school children. The Kentucky Book Fair is a trip back home to Potter who taught at Franklin County's Collins Lane Elementary for eight years before going to law school. She practiced law in Frankfort for over a decade. Potter now lives in western Kentucky with her husband, Ivan.
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