Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt read from a new children’s book about Chapel Hill, Once Upon a Hill, to students in Denise Cowan’s fourth-grade class at Seawell Elementary School last week.
The book, written by Irma Tejada and illustrated by Chris Kanoy, is the third book in a series commissioned by the Orange County Visitors Bureau. Tejada and Kanoy previously published books about Carrboro and Hillsborough. Once Upon a Hill tells the story of a young girl who moves to Chapel Hill from France. She and her classmates present oral reports to one another about significant landmarks and historical figures related to Chapel Hill.
Several copies of the book were donated to the Seawell Elementary library.