Literacy festival May 6, 2016

First stop is to listen to author and illustrator Dan Kilłeen.  Dan is a local writer who includes St. Louis in  his books!   The students were able to view his newest book!  Derrick and the Dinosaurs We also learned about how practice is important to become the best author and illustrator possible.

Stop number 2- Learning about the St. Louis County Library Summer Reading program.

Stop number 3- Pick a book

Each student selected a book of choice to take home.  Who awesome is that!?

Stop number 4- Illustrator Jeff Wiegel

While here the students learned a little about how an illustration needs to match the words.  Together the students helped create the main character, Austin, as a superhero.  They were given background info about the character and then the students told the illustrator how the character should look.  He will be cleaning up then true and sending it to us here at Long!

Stop number 5-  We finished our day by enjoying the books published by all of the classrooms at Long.  The books will be barcoded and should be available for checkout from our school library next year!

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