The EACS Board of School Trustees recently recognized Ms. Karen Augustine, and her first-grade class at Cedarville Elementary School for being finalists in the 2020-2021 National Book Challenge!
As a finalist in the one-and-only National Book Challenge, Ms. Augustine’s class-book was selected from entries across the country and awarded as a Top 50 book based on its originality, creative storyline, and colorful illustrations. This nationwide contest was open to more than 60,290 books that were submitted to Studentreasures for free publishing this school year.
For this honor, her class will receive a $50 gift card, plus a published author certificate for each student (26 of them). Each of the first-grade authors were recognized for their contributions to their book, “Super Special Me!,” which was published earlier this year through Studentreasures’ free publishing program.
Ms. Augustine and her students created “Super Special Me!”, when they were inspired by how they see themselves and what they want to be when they grow up. The first-grade authors put forth their best effort, researching, writing about, and illustrating their all about me book, before they sent their completed pages to be published.
Ms. Augustine said, “Helping to build up my first graders’ self-confidence was an important component and taking time to have the kids create their own book pages celebrating ways they are unique and special, and then having all their hard work and effort published into hardcover and softcover bound books, was a wonderful way to do just that! Witnessing the comments and squeals of delight in themselves and their work was priceless. The class book, “Super Special Me!” is a precious keepsake that they can open and enjoy again and again.”
