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Camille Highby poses with her drawing that was published nationally in Highlights magazine.
For 11-year-old Camille Highby, a less than stellar weekend turned into national publication of one of her drawings.
Highby's drawing, titled Silly Sea Horse was featured in the Your Own Pages section of the July edition of Highlights magazine.
"I was really bored on a Saturday," Highby said of the day she drew her picture.
There was a copy of Highlights sitting next to her on that day, so she decided to create a picture to submit to the magazine.
"I remembered reading about a seahorse at the library, so I drew one," Highby said.
When Highby got notice that she'd won and her drawing would be featured in the publication, she was very excited.
"Me and my mom were freaking out," she said.
Seeing her work in Highlights was fun for Highby.
"It felt really great," she said. "It felt like I was famous."
Highlights receives more than 35,000 reader submissions each year.
Highby's mother, Kelly Sudduth was equally as excited as her daughter about the publication. While Sudduth, who read Highlights regularly as a kid sent submissions to the magazines many times and was never published, this was her daughter's first try.
"This is like me living vicariously through her," Sudduth said.
Highlights selects submissions to print from children of all ages from across the globe. The magazine strives to foster children's creativity through publishing their work.
Highby, who attends Sidney schools enjoys art, fishing, reading bible stories and camping as well as taking care of her pet cat. She hopes to be a paleontologist when she grows up.
"We're really excited and very proud," Sudduth said.
Highby and her sister Elsa, 9, held a lemonade stand last week to raise money for Night of Hope Cancer Walk. They collected $50 to donate to the organization. The two were featured in the Sun-Telegraph last year for their efforts to raise money for the cause with their lemonade stand.
Highlights is the most widely read children's magazine in the United States. It printed its one-billionth copy in 2006.
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