Ideas to teach kids kindness, compassion and giving back.
Welcome to our 2nd annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2015!! We are so excited for our second year! Thank you to everyone joining us today! Multicultural Children’s Book Day Twitter Party We’re hosting a Twitter party tonight at 9pm to 10pm EST using hashtag #ReadYourWorld. We will be talking about diversity in children’s books and…
International Book Giving Day is giving out lovely bookplates and bookmarks to celebrate a day of book giving coming up February 14th. It’s another way to celebrate Valentine’s Day and literacy! International Book Giving Day on February 14th! For those of you unfamiliar with the holiday, International Book Giving Day is a day dedicated to getting…
Please welcome my work friend Jeradina today. She is guest posting on a cause that is near and dear to her heart: helping women in Haiti rebuild their lives through an organization called Trades of Hope. ———— Monday, January 12th marks the 5th anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti. When the disaster struck many of…
First of all, I have to say that December is a crazy busy month to attempt to complete 25 Random Acts of Kindness for our family. We are busy and stressed out and giving back isn’t top of mind. Which is why this is so good for us! It’s almost as easy to do an…
I posted on CWIST’s learning challenges that parents select for their kids and reward them as they see fit. For the holiday season, CWIST has a program that lets kids earn a present for a child in need who might not have any presents under the tree this year! First, we chose a boy just like him:…
Please welcome my guest post author today, Paula Yoo! She is the author of Twenty-Two Cents, a picture book biography of microloan creator and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunnus. Twenty-two Cents: Muhammad Yunus and the Village Bank by Paula Yoo, illustrated by Jamal Akib Before I started writing books for children, I was a journalist. I…
When we first went on a vacation in Kennebunkport, Maine, we stumbled upon a surf shop called Aquaholics. I’m from a little beach town in Southern California, so finding a surf shop in New England is like finding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. They offered surfing lessons and Grasshopper and…