LiTeach participants- Use all lowercase to download: www.living-libraries.com/liteach
LiTeach participants- Use all lowercase to download: www.living-libraries.com/liteach
If you are looking to donate children's books, click the donated books button below. If you are a bookworm from a Magic Book Party from year ago, please see important info for fulfillment of promise below!
Did you grow up to become that thing you wrote down on the inside of your magic book? If so, yea for that special lunch I promised you all those years ago. I hold true to my word when I told you you would be able to find me at the website stamped inside the front cover of your Magic Book. And here you are!
Hi Bookworm!
My name is Kristi Cruise, but you might know me better as Erma the Bookworma, a beloved character I created to help kids like you fall in love with books. From 2010 to 2018 I performed what you might remember as the Magic Book Partry in elementary schools across Charlotte, reading my book Luckier than the Luckiest to thousands of deserving children.
The parties were amazing because YOU were amazing. Performing these book parties was truly one of my greatest joys since bringing the organization to life in 2008. I could not be more grateful for the time I got to spend inspiring children like you to read. I want you to know how much I have hoped and prayed that what we did had a long-lasting impact that you became a veracious reader for life.
I hope you still have your Magic Book, but if not, that's OK too. Life happens! What matters is the belief the MB set in motion and who you because of those beliefs. I cannot wait to take you to lunch, and yes, in a limo as promised, IF you have moved away from the Charlotte, NC area. I travel! Congrats bookworm, you did it and I can't wait to celebrate with you!
Kristi Cruise, Luckier than the Luckiest
We started a literacy leadership company called Living Libraries that tunrs willing children in LiLis {pron. Lee-Lees} which is short for Living Libraries, using our, multi-sensory, experiential book The LiLI Key, kids get to feel the many living books inside them, they even get their own LiLi Key necklaces! The LiLi Key is one of 9 (and counting) bilingual books we have published that help kids become their best selves so together we can grow up and change the world as a Superhuman team! Sponsor a future LiLi today! Readers become leaders!
Reading a book all slumped over at a desk is so last century! And it's NOT the most effective way to read and learn. Enter LiYo Literacy Yoga Fusion #PowerREADING, iur proprietary reading yoga fusion that helps kids, or anyone, read and learn at a deeper level of mind, by entraining the brain hemispheres and slowing you down into your parasympathetic nervous system. LiYo has more than 40 different benefits for the body and brain! Become LiYo Certified today!
We believe all children need and deserve to see book characters and know authors who look just like them! That's why we created Books with Color Inc., a diversity-driven authors alliance. Thanks to support from the United Way of Greater Charlotte and others, we are able to purchase books from diversity-driven indy authors and place those authors and their books into classrooms for world-class reading experiences that help kids see themselves in books!
Do not hesitate to reach out to me directly if you do not hear back from me. Life can get very busy! My email is kristi@living-libraries.com.
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