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  Parents, teachers and fellow classmates at Maxwell Elementary School in Duncanville watched as about 540 students and 60 faculty members dressed like their favorite vocabulary words and held a parade in...

  Parents, teachers and fellow classmates at Maxwell Elementary School in Duncanville watched as about 540 students and 60 faculty members dressed like their favorite vocabulary words and held a parade in the halls on Monday. \"The parade is based on Debra Frasier's book, 'Miss Alaineus, A Vocabulary Disaster,' where a student...

Five Minnesota writers have won McKnight Artist Fellowships for Writers, announced (and administrated) by the Loft Literary Center of Minneapolis.

  The book's main character, fifth-grader Sage, misses a day of school and misunderstands her vocabulary assignment. She arrives at her class' spelling bee only to spell out the word miscellaneous in front of the class as \"Miss Alaineus,\" and give her own unique definition. But Sage redeems her embarrassing moment and becomes a big hit at the school's vocabulary parade a few days later, when she goes as \"Miss Alaineus, Queen of all Miscellaneous Things,\" proving what her mother tells her: \"There's gold in every mistake.\" \"It was really neat to hear the kids talking to each other,\" [Michele Holtzapple] said, \"and saying, 'Wow, your word is cool.'\"

Festivities start at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, at Sabatino Park with the costume parade at 4:30 p.m. You'll find pumpkin decorating, the chili cook-off, pie bake-off, hay rides, hot dogs, hot cider, pumpkin and apple pie and a visit from the Headless Horseman. Please bring canned and non-perishable goods for the FISH food pantry. I'm going to leave out names until police have a chance to do a little more digging, but a northern Fox Valley reader wrote worried about an incident that scared her and I'd think would have frightened anyone. She was driving along Boyer Road with her children, two in the backseat, when a young man with a BB gun opened fire. Boyer, used as a shortcut by many Huntley and Algonquin residents, runs parallel and west of Randall Road, intersecting with County Line Road near the Algonquin Wal-Mart. Laura Alessio of the District 300 Foundation for Educational Excellence tells me that author and artist Debra Frasier - known to many of you as the author of the popular \"On the Day You Were Born\" - has been getting rave reviews from students and teachers as she makes the rounds of District 300 schools this week. You can meet Debra and get her autograph from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday when she signs books at Barnes & Noble at Spring Hill Mall.

An hourlong concert by the Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis features Debra Frasier reading from her book \"On the Day You Were Born.\"

PHOTO 3; HOW IT'S DONE: Children's book author [Debra Frasier] explains to students at Boulevard Heights Elementary School in Hollywood the process of making a book. PLAYING THE PART: [Betty Bunnell], an ESE specialist at Boulevard Heights Elementary, dresses up like a character from a book by author Debra Frasier. NO PEEKING: Students at Boulevard Heights Elementary wait to be surprised during a lecture by award-winning children's author Debra Frasier. Photos/Marcia Freidenreich

In Christy Hale's \"Thread of Life,\" an old woman's yarn becomes a girl's jump-rope, a tug-of-war rope, a rappeller's rope and a kite's string before turning into an old man's fishing line. Duluth illustrator Betsy Bowen (\"Antler, Bear, Canoe: A Northwoods Alphabet Year\") glued whole crayons to recreate a fireside memory from childhood. And \"The Simpsons\" illustrator Bill Morrison sets Homer's teeth on edge to Bart's obnoxious taunts. This is the first year that children's illustrators were asked to participate, but the research foundation has auctioned off masks decorated by professional artists and talented amateurs for several years. Last year's masks fetched $150 to $1,200 each, [John Larson] said. While this year's goal is $300,000, the foundation may well exceed that because of the masks' appeal and quality. - What: Annual fundraiser. The nonprofit Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation has recruited 50 of the world's top illustrators of children's books and other artists to create masks that it will auction off. Proceeds will benefit the REACH (Research, Education and Advocacy for Child Health) fund for pediatric programs at Hennepin County Medical Center.

Written by Judy Sierra with illustrations by Barney Saltzberg, this book focuses on a teacher named Miss Darling, who runs a rather unusual classroom. Instead of just one classroom pet, Miss Darling has suggested that her class have a pet for each letter of the alphabet. Sierra takes this idea and runs with it, offering readers a short, humorous poem about each alphabet pet, from Amanda Anaconda to something called a zorilla. Saltzberg adds another layer of entertainment with his cheerful colored pencil and watercolor illustrations. (Ages 4 to 7.) [Debra Frasier] created the illustrations by using supplies she found in her fifth-grade daughter's desk - markers, lined notebook paper, pencils, glue and scissors. The resulting illustrations are fascinating: the figures are expressive but two-dimensional, with blue lines from the notebook paper running through them. (Ages 5 to 9.)

\"I enjoy being out here,\" she said, \"and I love the Lincoln Shrine.\" \"On my website I have tips on how schools and libraries can hold an event based on (Alphabet). [Pamela Bunch, Smiley] was the first to do so,\" said [Debra Frasier], minutes before she took the stage to discuss her works, including her latest release, \"Spike: Ugliest Dog in the Universe.\" \"(This) is a great opportunity for all of our residents to see everything that Smiley Library offers to Redlands families,\" [Pete Aguilar] said. \"It's a lot of fun for me to share a little bit about the city with the young people that come out.\"