Friday’s weather didn’t cooperate, so elementary students at Albany International Center and the Dual Language Program simply held their planned Living Literature Parade indoors.

Students and staff dressed as their favorite book character and were cheered on by older students as they marched through the halls of Edmund J. O’Neal School of Excellence. Some of the characters came from fiction favorites like “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss and fairy tales like “Little Red Riding Hood,” while others were biographical figures like Frieda Kahlo.

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After the parade, many kept on their costumes for the rest of the day. The festivities capped off the school’s Multilingual Literacy Week.