Melanie Wilbourne teaches art at College Park Elementary School in College Park, Georgia, where she sees education as the sum of every experience a child has. On Oct. 22, the school welcomed four time Grammy Award winning and Emmy Award winning superstar Lizzo for a literacy event hosted by the Atlanta based nonprofit Page Turners Make Great Learners. Lizzo introduced her debut children’s picture book, Lil Lizzo Meets Sasha B. Flootin’, with College Park Mayor Bianca Motley Broom on hand in support of the Mayor’s Reading Club. Wilbourne spoke about the day afterward.
Tell me what today meant to you.
Today was so unexpected. It was not anything like what we expected. A week prior, they started letting us know we had an author’s visit. They never attached celebrity or Grammy award winning. Yesterday my principal said, “I need you to do a banner. We’ve got Lizzo coming and she’s going to read her new book.” I’m like, “Why you wait till the day to let us know it’s Lizzo coming to the school?” I didn’t know anything about her presence, she said.”…