Second graders in Mrs. Carleen Parmegiani’s class hosted a Holiday Book Shop to celebrate the culmination of their written and illustrated realistic fiction books. The annual event showcases the grade-level English language arts curriculum and encourages the students to share their writing process, enhance their reading and public speaking skills and highlight their creative process including why they chose a character’s name or if they mirrored their setting or plots on real-life events. Guest visitors included other classes, administrators, teacher and family members who were encouraged to attend and listen to the proud authors/illustrators, who each had six copies of their books printed that could be “purchased” for holiday gift giving with coupons presented to the guests.