Queen Auntie's House
A warm children's story about family, care, and joyful learning.
Dr. Dorothy Neal's book celebrates the homes, relatives, routines, and loving places where children feel safe, valued, and known.
Story overview
A home filled with love, play, comfort, family traditions, and learning.
Queen Auntie's House is a warm children's story about a home filled with love, play, comfort, family traditions, and joyful learning. The story reflects the nurturing role extended family members can play in children's lives.
Young readers are invited to recognize the people and places where they feel safe, valued, and loved. The book brings together Dr. Neal's lifelong commitments to children, literacy, family, belonging, and culturally affirming stories.
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Educational connections
A book that can become a classroom, library, church, or family literacy experience.
Queen Auntie's House supports conversations about belonging while opening the door to vocabulary, comprehension, family storytelling, and community reading events.
Interactive read-alouds and author visits
Family literacy nights and community reading events
Classroom conversations about family, belonging, routines, kindness, and care
Beginning-reader vocabulary, sight words, phonics, and comprehension activities
Career Day presentations connecting Dr. Neal's journey from military service and teaching to authorship
School, library, church, and youth-program partnerships
Author statement
After 30 years in education, Dr. Neal published a story rooted in the children and families she serves.
After retiring from a 30-year career in education, Dr. Neal published her first children's book, Queen Auntie's House. The book reflects her lifelong commitment to helping children feel seen, supported, and capable.
Related project
Queen Auntie's House The Great Florida Adventure expands the series through a multigenerational family journey focused on adventure, water safety, grief support, curiosity, family connection, and love passed from one generation to the next.
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