Lakewood Creek Elementary Earns an Author Visit from Amy Logan

Over the summer Lakewood Creek elementary students read 239,810 minutes, 14,000 more than the previous year and earned an author visit from Amy Logan as a celebration.  

The students received an exclusive look at Logan’s first book “A Girl With A Cape,” before it even hit the stores.

As Logan entered the gymnasium she was surprised to see each student’s signature on life size character from her book on the wall. She was so shocked that she autographed the picture herself.   

Logan started out by explicating that her book is “the true story about the superhero in all of us.” She asked students what they think a superhero is and explained that a superhero doesn’t need to have super strength or doesn’t have to be able to fly.

“If there are people out there who make this world a better place, then aren’t they superheroes? I decided to put in a book about a girl just like you,” Logan said.

She told the kids to pretend that kindness is like a ball, which got passed on to another kid only when they complemented them.

“Just like everyone wants the ball, everyone wants to be complemented…You never know how far kindness will travel, just like you don’t know where the ball will end up,” explained Logan.

In the next activity, Logan showed the difference between clapping by herself and then with everybody in the room.

“The clap wouldn’t of have sounded that powerful if you weren’t here…you are important,” Logan said.

Logan also clarified that kindness is like a Lego brick and that you can’t do anything with one Lego brick, you need to gather more bricks to create skyscrapers.

“It takes more time to build it than to destroy it…More people needed to know how important they were-how important kindness is,” Logan said.

Logan’s goal is to create a C.A.P.E campaign, which stands for Create A Positive Environment by Creating Action for Positive Encouragement. At the end of the assembly, all students took the pledge to be a C.A.P.E ambassador by shouting “the world needs me!” 

Each kid then received a kindness card that is meant to be left in different places to extend the chain of kindness. Students can also download calendars from Logan’s website where they can keep track of all the kind things they do and say every day, and then they can send it to Logan and receive another kindness card.

102 autographed copies of the book were ordered and came with cheetah print capes that the girl wears in the story.