The sun came out midday last Thursday, May, 19, and so did the kindergarten classes at the Ethel A. Jacobsen Elementary School in Surf City. After visiting with the pre-kindergarteners, first-graders and second-graders that morning, children’s book author and illustrator Monica Wellington met the kindergarten students in the schoolyard garden.

Wellington’s book Zinnia’s Flower Garden was one of the youngsters’ recent English Language Arts curriculum books.