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Figure Skating Fairytales at Fairytale Town

09.26.11

This weekend, Fairytale Town was transformed into a menagerie of creative writing and reading. Fairytale Town hosted the 11th Annual ScholarShare Children's Book Festival this past Saturday and Sunday. Arts and literacy organizations were on hand, most of them providing information to parents and interesting literacy activities for children.

Mother Goose Stage was the centerpiece of the day. Authors and presenters sat in a giant and rather royal-looking throne at the center of the stage and the children crowded around. The weekend’s events included readings by eleven different authors including Olympic gold medal figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi.

Yamaguchi soon stepped onto Mother Goose stage to sit down on the author’s throne. Many children were already surrounding the chair, most holding their own copy of “Dream Big, Little Pig!” The parents surrounding the stage might have been even more excited than the kids.

Yamaguchi set out to write a book to promote early childhood literacy, and she succeeded. Children all around were interested in the activities that Poppy tried, and just why she decided to try again when she failed. They were interested to know why it was good to “Dream Big.”

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