MrsP.com Announces Winners of 3rd Annual National Kids’ Writing Contest

January 16, 2012 in Featured Post, News, Projects We Support by Chris Singer

MrsP.com announced today the names of the two Grand Prize winners in its third annual “Be a Famous Writer” contest, a nationwide creative-writing competition for children held every September.

World Read Aloud Day is back and bigger than ever

January 15, 2012 in Featured Post, News, Projects We Support by Chris Singer

793 million adults worldwide lack basic reading and writing skills. This World Read Aloud Day, the globe will connect like never before. Let us together read and share to advocate for the power of words and stories.

Become part of the Book Dads Community!

January 14, 2012 in Featured Post, News by Chris Singer

If you’re a regular visitor to Book Dads, you may have noticed a few changes in recent weeks. Besides the small cosmetic and layout changes, I’ve been working hard to [...]

Lit World’s vision: A Girl’s Club in every country, every city

April 27, 2011 in News by Chris Singer

Throughout the world, 774 million people are illliterate, and 2/3 of that number are women. Because of this, one of our biggest programs is our LitWorld Girls Clubs for Literacy, a [...]

An Hour with Chris Van Allsburg

April 12, 2011 in Michigan author, News by Chris Singer

Yesterday, I was among a crowd of at least 100 people at Schuler Books in Okemos, MI to hear, Caldecott Award winning children’s book author/illustrator, Chris Van Allsburg speak. Allsburg, [...]

Celebrate National Poetry Month with Lit World

April 6, 2011 in News by Chris Singer

30-Second Video: April is National Poetry Month! Join LitWorld, A Global Literacy Organization, in celebrating the power and spirit of words by helping to compose a Global Poem for Change: The wonderful [...]