Author/Actress Pushes Through Pain to Tell Stories: A Chat with Candy "C...

In this video, multitalented St. Louis author Candy "CandyGram" Pettiford shows her dramatic flair as she shares her literacy journey of growing up in a Swedish town in Minnesota, contracting rheumatoid arthritis in her 30's, and then starting a writing career. She describes her numerous talents and gives snippets of her children's books. CandyGram encourages literacy by proclaiming that it opens doors.