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TV Anchor Devin Scillian Celebrates National Reading Month in Royal Oak
Students at St. Mary Catholic School had a local TV celebrity stop by to encourage enthusiasm for reading.
Students at are used to hearing the familiar voice of Devin Scillian tell stories. Scillian has been reporting the news on local television since the mid 1990s— before the students seated on the floor of the St. Mary's lunchroom were even born.
"I see you on TV," the excited students said to the Local 4 News anchorman.
Scillian was at the school to promote National Reading Month. Dressed casually in blue jeans and a Tigers baseball cap, he read Memoirs of a Goldfish, a fish tale he authored two years ago that has won many awards.
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"What's so awesome to me about books," Scillian said, "is they have a great permanence about them. It's so much more fun to pick up a book than it is to pick up a DVD or a tape of some kind."
Scillian told students his favorite book when he was in elementary school was My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George.
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