The Pancake Card Has Won The 2016 Ippy Bronze For Children's Interactive Books!

I'm super excited to denote that The Pancake Menu (my majority published final summer) has won the Bronze medal for the IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award)!  They announced the winners yesterday.

I'd honey to larn to the laurels ceremony, only non certain if I tin larn yet. Thank you lot for all of your back upwards as well as I'm as well as thence pleased to live on recognized for my difficult operate on The Pancake Menu!

It was as well as thence exciting to induce got it on Good Morning America final twelvemonth as well as this is exciting intelligence to larn an laurels : )

Annual Accept Your Kids To Function Twenty-Four Sixty Minutes Stream At Google La-- Catch To Youtube Space!

Hi All,

Last twelvemonth nearly this fourth dimension I didn't post service nearly the annual Take your kids to locomote twenty-four hr menstruum at Google since I got to wing out in addition to locomote on Good Morning America the side past times side day.

Yesterday I got to become amongst my kids in addition to catch the Los Angeles YouTube Space. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 costless studio for YouTube producers to role 1 time you lot convey 10,000 or to a greater extent than subscribers.  I did instruct to become concluding year, but this twelvemonth was too super fun!

The root house nosotros went to this fourth dimension was the provide room. Normally you lot can't become dorsum there. This is the surface area where all the equipment is stored in addition to when you lot become to shoot in that place you lot fill upwards out a provide cast in addition to the attendants volition stock a dolly of all the equipment ordered in addition to you lot instruct to ready it upwards inward the studio/room you lot convey been assigned.

Next upwards was seeing simply about of the well rooms in addition to light-green rooms, command station, well room in addition to nosotros got to verbalise amongst a dyad YouTubers in that place (Vagabrothers in addition to SandiBalloons) .  It was a lot of fun!

YouTube producers seat in addition to hence much fourth dimension in addition to endeavour into their videos. It was amazing to run across how much was going on inward the YouTube Space. In fact, I'm thinking in addition to planning to gain a weekly MaTh (Math activeness Thursday) video serial on my channel. So delight subscribe : )

Are you lot excited to run across what fun math activities nosotros tin gain each week? What would you lot desire to run across on the videos?

One of my goals is to instruct to 10,000 subscribers in addition to instruct to brand cool cooking tutorials to seat a QR code inward my Pancake Menu books!  BTW, hither is what my majority looks similar amongst the awesome IP Bronze abide by sticker!

Thanks for your support!

Getting Recognition : )

I worked too then much to attain a beautiful too helpful production too I am too then grateful to the Independent Publishers Book Award judges for awarding The Pancake Menu the Bronze medal : )

They tweeted virtually it today!

Congrats to the 2016 Children's Interactive medalists! https://t.co/ItLKJlAHRg #ippyawards pic.twitter.com/7rbGWguYLI

— IP Awards (@IPPYAwards) April 26, 2016

Winning Awards Is Rewarding... As Well As Therefore Happy To Part My Honour As Well As Metallic Amongst You, My Supporters : )

Hey everyone,

So, many of yous know I won an IP award for The Pancake Menu... The honor ceremony was terminal calendar week inward Chicago, only I was unable to go. Although, yesterday inward the post service all my materials came! I was over the moon...

 My immature lady took this motion painting for me together with I'm wearing my CBW-LA shirt too--I'm the board Secretary for that non-profit writing group. They helped my mass buy the farm a reality inward a big way.

Then hither is my lovely motion painting of the certificate, medallion, together with the mass amongst the sticker seal! Some of yous may convey a re-create of my mass amongst "Featured on Good Morning America" inward that spot, only instantly I volition seat the seal on the exterior together with the GMA sticker on the inside. : )

Anyway, I wanted to portion my exciting adventures inward writing math-related children's books! Take aid everyone!

Why I've Been Awol

I was active inwards doing my YouTube channel final twelvemonth as well as things were going well, as well as thence the summertime happened amongst it's choas amongst v kids as well as adventures thence I didn't film.  Then I got sick due to lack of slumber as well as trying to do likewise much.

This schoolhouse twelvemonth has been a challenge amongst v kids inwards v dissimilar schools--two high schools, i middle school, i elemenetary, as well as i pre-school! But nosotros are nearing the cease as well as I select hopes to furnish to blogging, youtubing, as well as getting inwards around 'me' time. My Kickstarter final twelvemonth was unsuccessful thence I didn't acquire to convey Trouble amongst Monkey's into the footing ---yet!

The final few weeks I've been gearing upwardly The Pancake Menu for to a greater extent than sales. I've been giving out bookmarks, I did a presentation inwards a 1st bird classroom.  I tin sack do presentations inwards Kinder -5th bird classes, I simply select the tweak the cloth (I tell the majority is peachy for 2-12 twelvemonth olds : )

One of my practiced editor friends helped me amongst a novel blurb since straightaway I acquire to position my majority on Google Books as well as presently my ePub on Google Play.  

Here is it : ) 345 words (the max was 350)

The Pancake Menu yesteryear Lucy Ravitch is an award-winning interactive painting majority that allows kids to larn of import math as well as personal skills spell playing restaurant!

Children are given a hardbound “menu” listing pancake specials, consummate amongst colorful illustrations as well as featherbrained rhymes. Kids may play alone, as well as run into what they’d similar to gild or come upwardly up amongst a novel pancake idea! Or they tin sack play inwards a group, taking the roles of diners as well as aspect staff. Some children taste playing chef, educate to “cook” or depict a tasty imaginary breakfast.

The majority volition please as well as entertain kids of all ages, including special needs groups, math fans, teachers, as well as parents. It makes an educationally fun rainy solar daytime activity. It’s peachy for play-dates amongst a flair of dramatic play. Teachers taste using it for a multi-purpose math oculus station students love.

Parents as well as teachers taste how easily kids larn currency, counting, multiplication, division, calculating percentages (don’t forget the tip!) as well as social skills through play.

Each pancake featured comes amongst a photographed recipe/direction page printed within fold-out pages. Once play is done as well as it’s fourth dimension to eat, kids as well as their parents tin sack acquire hands-on experience cooking as well as touchstone ingredients.

The Pancake Menu includes optional play money. FREE gild canvas templates as well as printable “Menu Money” are available anytime on www.kidsmenubooks.com. There, parents as well as teachers tin sack also honour a listing of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) ideas yesteryear bird level.

The Pancake Menu was featured on Good Morning America inwards Apr 2015, 3 months earlier its July release, as well as received an IPPY accolade inwards 2016.

The majority is suitable for children 2-12 years old. Children 7-12 volition locomote able to play independently, spell younger children volition taste the pictures as well as rhymes, but may require assistance amongst interactive play.

Although Menu prices are set, they tin sack locomote customized amongst glutinous notes or drawn over amongst a dry out erase marker--in gild to simplify counting for younger children, or give an extra challenge for tweens. Sturdy laminated pages extend the life of the book, making it an exceptionally durable play tool.

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Sounds awesome right! So, if you lot already ain a re-create brand certain to exit a review somewhere as well as for your information hither are the diverse outlets you lot tin sack acquire a copy... inwards no particular order.

Barnes & Noble (let's continue bookstores open)--The Pancake Menu is backordered but you lot tin sack add together it to your wishing listing simply to allow them know in that place is demand for it. It is available for electronically for Nook!

Walmart (Item #559381255) They select i copy, but if to a greater extent than people searched for it I bet they would gild to a greater extent than : )

E-bay This is truly simply me selling to brand around other outlet for the books to sell : ) 

Amazon I send the majority to them as well as and thence they send it to you...all those transportation costs arrive thence I don't acquire much, but if it's the nearly convenient for you, experience gratuitous to gild whichever agency is best for you! Again, it's digital for the Kindle readers too!

The NEWEST! Google Books! inwards the Google Play Store : )