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Little Redhaired Girl Publishing’s BOOKS FOR BRATS
®
and the SPINOZA®
Bear Company join forces to create
Military
Package for Children of Military Personnel
Team
reaches out to veterans and civilian community for donations
to children of military personnel
November 11, 2003, Brooklyn, NY -- Everyday, millions of
children worldwide are affected by the deployment of a parent
to an unaccompanied assignment in the military. Little
Redhaired Girl Publishing and SPINOZA Bear have joined
together to create a special package to help children coping
with these deployments.
The
purpose of the package is to help promote self-esteem
and relieve tension and anxiety for young children.
The package includes SPINOZA...the Bear Who Speaks from the
Heart and one of Little Redhaired Girl Publishing titles
“Daddy, You’re My Hero!” or “Mommy, You’re My
Hero!” from their BOOKS FOR BRATS series. The
Military Deployment Package is available through the SPINOZA
Bear website at www.spinozabear.com
and via a link at the BOOKS FOR BRATS series site at www.booksforbrats.net.
The package also includes:
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the
complete library of nine audio tapes for Spinoza
Bear. Many families are also taping the voice of the
deployed parent to help children to continue to feel
close.
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a
workbook titled Help For Kids, Understanding Your
Feelings about Terrorism, War and Peace that includes
tips for parents, teachers and caregivers written
by Carol Gesme, MA., CFLE. Gesme works with
individuals, groups, and organizations as a chemical
dependency counselor and a licensed family life educator.
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and a heart
shaped lapel pin.
In order to make the $150.00 package available to financially
strapped military families, the team is reaching out to
veteran organizations, civilian organizations and individuals
to sponsor children. Sponsorship donations
can be made through Spinoza’s “buddy bear project”,
Spinoza Cause Marketing Alliance and the Books for Brats
Angels Program.
“Our mission is to strengthen our communities by providing
support for emotional health through love and comfort;
cultivate positive values and attitudes in everyone; and to
help people understand and appreciate the value and uniqueness
of each one of us,” says Beth LeMasurier, President of The
Spinoza Company.
“We are thrilled to be working with the Spinoza Bear
organization. We have a similar mission, to bring
comfort and care to children in time of need. We also
believe public awareness and support of our military families
will help prevent burdening young children with politics and
other adult issues.” says author, Michelle Ferguson-Cohen
Little Redhaired Girl Publishing’s released two titles from
the BOOKS FOR BRATS series in
2003, “Daddy, You’re My Hero!” and
“Mommy, You’re My Hero!”. Acclaimed by educators and
child-care professionals, both titles are written and
illustrated by Michelle Ferguson-Cohen. Ferguson-Cohen,
a self-professed military “brat”, wrote the books from a
child’s perspective on coping with deployment. Ferguson-Cohen
is the child of a Vietnam Veteran and career Army officer, her
sister is a Gulf War Vet and her grandfather was killed in
action in WWII.
SPINOZA is a talking teddy bear developed in 1984 as a
communication tool capable of providing positive reinforcement
and encouragement in establishments of education, physical,
psychological and emotional therapy, and interpersonal
communications. The soft and huggable Spinoza Bear
features a built in high quality audio tape player and speaker
tucked deep in his fur. Spinoza’s library
of nine audio cassettes feature original songs and stories
with music and lyrics by Peter Himmelman. They
are available in English and Spanish. Spinoza
Bear has a history in assisting children in coping with
hospital stays, abuse, loss of a loved one, and other
traumatic situations.
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For
more information, please contact:
The
Spinoza Company
800-CUB-BEAR
www.spinozabear.com
Little
Redhaired Girl Publishing, Inc.
917.640.2844
www.booksforbrats.net
www.littleredhairedgirl.net
To
sponsor a child affected by deployment, please contact The
Spinoza Company toll free at 1-800-282-2327.
