Alabama NewsCenter — Alabama family restaurant’s hot dogs inspired M.C. Dixon’s children’s books

By: Lenore Vickrey / Alabama Living

When Misti Cutts Dixon was in sixth grade in Enterprise in 2000, a local radio station was publicizing a contest by Scholastic Magazine and the popular group NSYNC to promote literacy.

“They wanted people to write in about why you enjoyed reading,” she recalls. The top prize would be a library of new books for the winner’s school.

Intrigued, she wrote an essay and sent it in. “Back then you had to listen to the radio,” she says, “and I learned I’d won the contest for my school.”

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