Missouri School Read-In Day was celebrated Friday by students at South Holt Elementary School.

“We’re just trying to promote literacy,” said Ted Quinlin, Elementary School Principal. “We’re trying to make reading fun for the kids with all the different authors, with all the different types of books that are out there.”

Celebrity readers took part in reading to preschool, kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd graders Friday morning. Students heard from Q-County program director Travis Dodge, Mound City News editor Adam Johnson and Buchanan County Deputy Tiger Parsons.

“It’s our whole elementary school,” said Quinlin. “We have about 185 elementary school kids in Pre-K through 6th.”

This year’s theme revolved around Dr. Suess.

The older elementary grades participated in an Author discussion with published author Jason Offutt who talked about the writing process and shared some of his own works.

Students also heard from storyteller Will Stuck.