Dozens of grade school kids and their families converged on Clinton Elementary School earlier this week for a special event promoting reading.

CES Principal Sacha Young indicates there were folks from the community that came to read to the kids and the library was out with things for the kids to do.

According to Young, the program was intended to get kids excited about reading and to help continue efforts to get kids books for their personal libraries. She explains this coincides but was not related to a similar effort called 'Read Across Clinton'.

This week, author Dusti Bowling is in Clinton visiting with students in the district. Bowling has written several children's books and staff has taken the opportunity throughout the school year to help kids become familiar with her work in advance of her visit this week.