Brenau University early childhood education majors were the heroes at Fair Street International Academy recently.
Lisa McCoy, assistant professor in the College of Education, and her Brenau students helped first-graders at Fair Street publish “Tiger Tales,” a book full of their own stories and illustrations. The publication is made possible annually through a partnership with Brenau.
Early childhood majors worked with the first-grade students through the spring semester to compile the book, which features Lucile the Tiger on a series of adventures.
A statue of a tiger named Lucile sits along the Green Street edge of Brenau’s Gainesville campus. It was dedicated in 2013 in honor of Lucile Townsend Pearce, who came to the college as a student in 1897 and remained as a guiding influence for the next half-century.
Each Fair Street first-grader received a copy of the book to keep and was able to see their stories and pictures in print for the first time.
