{Guest Post By Deedee Cummings} As I write this, I am sitting across from my young son, Nick, who is Black like me. He is reading a book with no pictures and his eyes are moving fervently as he scans the pages. I wonder what he is thinking as he reads the words and absorbs the...
{Guest post from Charlotte Riggle} This year, sales and promotions are hard. There's a pandemic going on. In-person events are canceled. There are no book signings, no holiday bazaars. People are worried about their jobs, or they've already lost their jobs, so they don’t have money to spend. It's really tempting to do one of two...
{Guest Post by Jodi Murphy, Geek Club Books} Rebecca (Bex) Burgess, an illustrator and comic artist from the UK, went viral when the autistic community and educators discovered their graphic illustration, “Understanding the Spectrum.” The comic was the first of its kind to explain autism from a neurodiverse perspective AND created by an autistic artist. It’s...
When I was young, I used to go to Greek School. If I was doing a blog about 5 ways to make your kids NOT excited about another culture, my old greek school would be top of the list! I can remember sitting there in a crowded room, with a grumpy teacher, getting bored out...
Children learn through observation. They try to model the actions and behaviors of adults who are either around them or who they learn about through stories. Stories about characters that a child can associate with are a powerful means to provide inspiration and role models to them, especially during the early developmental age. Keeping this in mind,...