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Students line up around the playground Friday for the Storybook Parade at Clarkston Elementary School in Tyler. Each class chose a particular book and dressed in costumes of characters from that story for the event to promote reading. Andrew D. Brosig/Tyler Morning Telegraph via AP
Pre-kindergartener Crockett Marie Martin, 4, turns her face to the sun while participating in the Storybook Parade on Friday at Clarkston Elementary School in Tyler. Each class chose a particular book and dressed in costumes of characters from that story for the event to promote reading. Andrew D. Brosig/Tyler Morning Telegraph via APP
Older students, at right, watch as their school mates and teachers - including a pair of Dorothys from The Wizard of Oz - walk by in costumes Friday during the Storybook Parade at Clarkston Elementary School in Tyler. Each class chose a particular book and dressed in costumes of characters from that story for the event to promote reading. Andrew D. Brosig/Tyler Morning Telegraph via APP
Younger students watch, dressed in pajamas as characters from the holiday story "The Polar Express," as older school mates make their way around the playground for the Storybook Parade on Friday at Clarkston Elementary School in Tyler. Each class chose a particular book and dressed in costumes of characters from that story for the event to promote reading. Andrew D. Brosig/Tyler Morning Telegraph
Students line up in the gymnasium Friday for the Clarkston Elementary School Storybook Parade in Tyler. Each class chose a particular book and dressed in costumes of characters from that story for the event to promote reading. Andrew D. Brosig/Tyler Morning Telegraph via APP
Older students, at right, watch as their younger school mates walk by in costumes Friday during the Storybook Parade at Clarkston Elementary School in Tyler. Each class chose a particular book and dressed in costumes of characters from that story for the event to promote reading. Andrew D. Brosig/Tyler Morning Telegraph via APP
Ninjas, princesses and Power Rangers.
Students at Clarkston Elementary dressed up as their favorite storybook characters as part of Red Ribbon Week on Friday.
Elementary schools across Tyler ISD have put a focus on storybook heroes to drive interest in reading.
In addition to letting the students dress up at Clarkston, some campuses decorated pumpkins as their favorite characters and others held elections.
-- Cory McCoy
