June 16th is right around the corner!
Hello Everyone!June 16th is our official Kickstarter launch date! We need everyone’s full commitment on this journey to improve what our kids read! Expect more updates from us as we get closer to next Wednesday 🙂 We also added a few more rewards on our Kickstarter...
We wrote a book to inspire girls
This week, we’re pondering The Little Lark and it’s influence on our collection. This wonderful poem is about exploration and discovering nature through the eyes of a bird soaring high in the sky. In it, a little girl asks why the Lark wakes up so early to...
What children need to help fall asleep
This week we are back with another spotlight, covering one of our favorite books: The Fairies! This is a wonderfully illustrated poem about the magic time of the evening, and falling asleep. To some children this can be an anxious experience, when they don’t know...
How books can change a child’s life
In the last 5-6 emails we have talked a lot about children’s media: about how important it is to give our children the best role models and inspiring stories. You may be wondering what specifically that looks like. Take for example our book, The Boy and the Brook:...
What parents fear about their children and bullying
It was recently reported that bullying occurs with one in five children (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2019). We never want to think that our child could be contributing to that, but it is always a good idea to remember: there is never too much that we...
A shocking new statistic about children’s literacy levels
We just came across a new statistic that shows that sixty-five percent of all U.S. fourth graders scored "below proficient" in literacy, which means that they are not reading at their grade level. The National Children’s Book and Literacy Association reports the fact...
The problem with getting kids lost in the digital
Because technology has advanced so much in the last twenty years, parents today are the first generation that has ever raised their kids in an environment ruled by screens. There is an abundance of entertainment available for children at the push of a button, which...
Let’s be the best parents we can be
Being a parent in a time where the internet is everywhere is a daunting task. Children have access to all the content they could ever imagine at the click of a button, making it difficult to know what to filter out and what to introduce your child to. These days,...
Our kids are being too commercialized
Many children’s entertainment creators picture a child as nothing but a dollar sign: a way to make money without putting in a lot of effort. If you turn on most TV shows aimed at young children you’ll find that they’re filled with flashy graphics and mindless plots....