Our board Chair, Melissa Miles was delighted to have been invited to speak at the Jewish Education Alliance on September 21st. Melissa was the guest speaker during “Food for Thought” and spoke about the need for disability representation in children’s literature.
Part of our mission is to raise awareness of the need to diverse books, so it was wonderful to be able to share this with the group.
We are thrilled to share purchase links for Jeremiah Justice Saves Camp!
If you’d like to purchase a copy signed by the author and illustrator and you’re local to Savannah, check out Neighborhood Comics on Bull Street!.
On Thursday, May 19th, Board Chair Melissa Miles will present our first scholarship recipient with a book and certificate at his high school awards breakfast. The award will be paid directly to the college he’s attending this fall. We are so thrilled to be able to do this. Thank you for your support of our programs!
We are beyond thrilled to share the news that illustrator Rashad Doucet has signed a contract and begun work on the second of our special needs superhero books!! This book’s working title is Jeremiah Justice Saves Camp! Not only will readers get to share in more adventures with Jeremiah Justice as he battles a new villain, they’ll meet our newest superhero Bella Grace!
Check back here for more information as the project progresses. We appreciate all the love and support we’ve received, and love to hear from families who’ve read the book.
**Rashad also has a new book available to preorder now from Simon and Schuster Publishing! Check it out here.
It matters. Children need books with characters that represent the world around them. Books with characters of different races, religions and physical abilities–just to name a few. Middle grade novels are doing much better with inclusion and representation than they were even a few years ago. But we have a long way to go. Especially with picture books.
We ran the Kickstarter campaign for Jeremiah Justice Saves the Day last year, because we wanted to go beyond what’s out there already. We wanted to create a superhero with a remarkable ability, unlike any other. Thanks to Rashad Doucet‘s brilliance, we did just that. We were able to raise the funds to publish the book up front, which allows us to donate the proceeds of the book to this foundation.
Please help us share the news. With your help, we can raise the funds to publish more superhero books with special needs characters. Thanks for your support!
Thanks to some generous donations, we are able to donate 18 hardcover copies of Jeremiah Justice Saves the Day, to a camp in North Georgia for kids with tracheostomies this June. Each camper at Camp Trach Me Away will receive his/her own copy of the book this June. We appreciate the support to bring this book to the kids who need it the most!