Children’s Book Festival is a big hit with kids and adults
YOUNGSTOWN — Five-year-old Josiah Moss of Liberty Township was proud of the colorful drawing he had made that depicted tulips, a cupcake and a mouse on top of a large pencil, but more went into his artwork than probably met the eye.
That’s because the E.J. Blott Elementary School kindergarten student attended a half-hour session Wendy Anderson-Halperin had given on the importance of learning and applying good fine-motor skills to art and countless other endeavors.
“I teach how to hold the pencil correctly and change the pressure on the crayon. Doing that makes many colors,” explained the South Haven, Mich., artist and illustrator of more than 30 children’s books.
Anderson-Halperin added her main priority is helping children in kindergarten through second grade improve their fine-motor abilities.
Anderson-Halperin was among the guest illustrators and authors who conducted workshops as part of today’s 10th annual Children’s Book Festival at Mill Creek MetroParks’ Fellow Riverside Gardens and D.D. and Velma Davis Education & Visitor Center, 123 McKinley Ave., on the West Side.
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