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Lucid Publishing Announces the Release of Two New Educational Products
Lucid Publishing is proud to announce the release of two new products for the classroom: Build your own Coral Reef Mural Kit and Sign Language Alphabet ABC Coloring Sheets and Room Border. The Build your own Coral Reef Mural Kit is a perfect summer activity because it allows children to create their own coral reef mural simply by designating wall space, printing out the document, choosing their favorite reef animals and coloring them in. Once they are done coloring their marine life, they can cut it out and glue on their reef. The download includes around two dozen different reef animals including: fish, corals, sponges, eels, octopus, sea turtles, crabs, snails, and urchins. The Sign Language Alphabet ABC Coloring Sheets and Room Border is a great way to teach children how to sign the alphabet. Research has shown that using sign language is a great way to introduce letter sounds and practice spelling. It provides a kinesthetic activity to accompany a phonics program and can especially help students with special needs.Read More
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Monika Mira’s Illustrations Come to Life as her Award-winning Book is Transformed into a Book app
Who Lives in the Sea? Ocean Animals of Hawaii was released as a book about a year and half ago. The book was originally developed to accompany a sign language program that helps hearing children learn to read. As a baby sign language consultant, the author helps parents encourage language development and pre-emergent literacy skills in their children with the use of sign language. But you won’t see any sign language in the book or the new app for that matter. Instead, the beautiful collage illustration will help your children learn about all the animals that live in the sea in Hawaii (and a lot of other places too). The repetitive rhyming text captures and holds children’s attention. So how is a book app different from a book? Book apps are very similar to books, but you can download dozens of them onto your electronic device whether it be your iPad or Kindle. The reader can choose to be read to or read it himself. The illustrations are lightly animated, meaning that they may move or pan, but the app does not turn the book into a movie, it is still a book. Book apps are also much cheaper than books since there are no printing costs associated with publication. “Book apps are great for emergent readers because they offer text highlighting and read along features, “ says author, Monika Mira who is a also literacy advocate.Read More
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Kauai Authors Read to Hundreds of Children on Read Across Kauai Day
On February 28th, 2014 also known as Read Across Kauai Day, members of the Kauai Children’s Authors Guild will hit the road to promote the importance of literacy by reading to hundreds of children across the Garden Island. The guild members spent months raising funds for the event and scheduling book readings at various schools across the Garden Island. With the help of the following sponsors, guild members will be able to distribute over 400 books to children across Kauai. Thanks goes out to: Plantation Gardens Restaurant, the North Shore Lions Club, the East Kauai Lions Club, Coldwell Banker Makai Properties, J. Lohr Winery, Gerald Nakashima, the KART Foundation, Terry and Helene Kamen, Janice Bond, Mokihana Pest Control and many other individual donors who made this event possible. The event was modeled after the national event, Read Across America Day, but Kauai is such a special place that guild members designed Read Across Kauai Day to be a little more personal, a little more “Kauai Style”. The event provided an opportunity for children to interact with local authors and establish a personal connection with the books being read to them. The authors were also be able to share their experiences about writing and publishing books in order to inspire children to become writers if that is their dream. The authors reinforced the importance of reading by encouraging creativity through writing and artistic expression.Read More
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Announcing the Release of Who Lives in the Sea? Ocean Animals of Hawaii
Lucid Publishing is proud to announce the release of their new children’s title, Who Lives in the Sea? Ocean Animals of Hawaii. Award-winning Kauai author, Monika Mira brings you a repetitive rhyming story about ocean animals that encourages early reading skills and answers the burning questions that the inquisitive minds of young children tend to ask about the world around us. The books starts out, “On a trip to the islands of Hawaii, baby asks his mommy, ‘Who lives in the sea?’” The rhythmic verse is accompanied by captivating collage illustrations that introduce children to sea creatures like the Humpback whale, dolphin, sea turtle, jellyfish, reef fish and starfish. As always, Mira also includes important species like the endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal. Mira was inspired to write and illustrate this book because she is concerned about the rare and endangered species that live in Hawaii as well as the state of the environment. She feels that one way to help these species is to foster an appreciation in our children and encourage them to take action to protect marine resources. You will see this theme in all of her books. Her first title, The Complete Hawaiian Reef Fish Coloring Book is used as a textbook in middle schools and high schools to teach children about the reef and the importance of conservation.Read More
