Cool Animal Fact
Take Our Poll Did you guess it? Pretty interesting fact, right? Here’s another interesting fact. The “F is for Foreword” package over at our Kickstarter campaign is selling like hotcakes. When you...
View ArticleSTEM Education—or Science Can Be Fun
STEM—or Science, Technology, Engineering and Math—is the acronym buzzing around education circles these days. In 2009, President Obama introduced the “Educate to Innovate” initiative, designed to fund...
View ArticleCelebrating STEM Topics in Picture Books
I love picture books, despite that fact that I’m significantly older than the target audience for most of them. Good words accompanied by good pictures create a synergy, a whole greater than its parts....
View ArticleEnlarge Your Child’s World with Books
“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.” — Jacqueline Kennedy Do you know an animal that likes to take a bath in dust? Our friends Riley and Zoey...
View ArticleShop Indie
So here’s our book on the shelf at the Local Flavor Bookstore in Boyne City, Michigan. Doesn’t it look fantastic? That old adage “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is pure bunk. We all judge books by...
View ArticleTo Delight a Child
We love this photo of this preschool beauty reading the Animal Store Alphabet Book. It reminds us of a Renaissance painting. Thanks to her mom for sharing it with us. “To delight a child, to add a new...
View ArticleMusical Merriment with Joel Frankel
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” — Plato With the late arrival of...
View ArticleSummer Events
This has been an exciting summer so far. Our book is now available at Timeless Toys in Lincoln Square in Chicago. Last weekend, Susan visited the fair city of Madison, WI. Thanks to Victoria Flynn and...
View ArticleSummertime is Reading Time!
Reading and summer just seem to go together. Reading makes car and plane rides speed by. Even if you aren’t traveling far from home this summer, a book can take you anywhere you want to go—around the...
View ArticlePinterest and More on Shopping Local
We’re kind of loving Pinterest these days. So many pretty things to see, so many crafts to try, so many ideas for back to school, reading, and literacy. On our own Pinterest Page, we have created 18...
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