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Author Charlotte Riggle [caption id="attachment_6381" align="alignnone" width="851"] Author Charlotte Riggle[/caption] A Woman of Many Hats |Author Charlotte Riggle Charlotte Riggle wears many different hats in her life. She is a picture book author, a technical writer, a blogger. Her first picture book was a finalist in the 2015 Best Book Awards. A technical newsletter she wrote was honored...

Julie Gribble and New York Media Works, LLC/ KidLit TV KidLitTv KidLit TV is a diverse group of parents, educators, librarians, kid lit creators, and award-winning filmmakers all working together to bring great books to kids! Their mission is to create fun new ways to reinforce an appreciation of reading that children will carry with them for the rest of...

Diverse and customizable children’s books | Loving Lion Books

Loving Lion Books

Diverse and customizable children’s books that celebrate the joy of family and reflect the beautiful, multi-ethnic world in which we live.

Loving Lion Books is a publishing house that creates and publishes gorgeous custom children’s books featuring and celebrating children and families of color. The books are sold exclusively on our website: www.LovingLionBooks.com.

2018 Silver Sponsor Capstone Publishing

Capstone Publishing

Helping children develop a love of reading and learning, no matter their ability level, is at the heart of what we do at Capstone. Our passion for creating inspired learning has made us the most trusted publisher of children’s books and digital solutions for libraries, classrooms, and consumers for more than 25 years.

Capstone is a trusted publisher of children’s media, including books, digital products, solutions and services, literacy programs, and K-12 professional development resources. Capstone creates content in a variety of print and digital formats for school libraries, classrooms, and at-home reading. Capstone ignites curiosity and imagination through the power of inspiring learning experiences. #CapstoneForAllKids

Capstone offers an amazing line-up of diverse books for young readers (for all age groups).

World Languages for our Multicultural World

First Global Challenge, an international competition, brought teen-agers from over 150 countries around the world to Washington, D.C. this summer. Students collaborated across countries and borders to build robots which would reduce water contamination. A keynote speaker observed that in the future there would be many opportunities for budding scientists from around the world to work together for peaceful purposes.

This is the world that we need to prepare our children for. Regardless of their career choices or where they may live, it is more probable than ever that they will be communicating and working with people from diverse language and cultural backgrounds.

How do we best prepare our children for success in the multilingual, multicultural 21st century?

Judy Martialay

Let’s give them an early start learning a foreign language. One can learn a language at any age, but children who start early have more years to become truly proficient and to have a marketable skill.