A Beautiful Picture Book With
a Simple, But Powerful Message: Love Lasts Forever. |
Sun Kisses, Moon Hugs Now Beautifully Bilingual!
With your help, we can get this new edition out to the children who need it most.
WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS LOVE. MORE LOVE. ABUNDANT LOVE. CRAZY, HOPEFUL HUGS AND KISSES (at least, that's what we think - and we hope you agree with us)!
In the past seven years, Sun Kisses, Moon Hugs has helped countless children feel comforted and connected to their loved ones in all sorts of challenging circumstances. The book is being used not just by families, but also by many professionals and organizations helping kids cope with divorce, deployment, loss and grief, hospice, incarcerated parents, domestic violence, and foster care. Our book has received glowing reviews, was recommended in the nationally syndicated "Ask Amy" column, and is even included on teacher-training curricula at several universities! We are so grateful to our original Kickstarter backers for making that first dream possible. Now we have an even bigger dream. Children need this book's reassuring message of love and connection today more than ever! In order to reach more families, we've worked with translators to create a beautiful bilingual Spanish-English edition! "Besos de sol, abrazos de luna" is complete and ready for printing! If you'd like to help us get Besos de sol, abrazos de luna into the hands of more children who need it, click on the Kickstarter graphics to your left. For every book ordered through our campaign, we will donate a copy to a charity that helps children in need. Thank you for any help you can give. |
It All Started From The Heart
We are two moms who first met during a Mommy and Me class in 2004. Over the years, our friendship has grown up right along with our children – and expanded into a richly creative collaboration. We created Sun Kisses, Moon Hugs in 2012 when we were both struggling with grief and loss. A Kickstarter drive made it possible to publish the book and birth it into the world.
A few months later, LeVar Burton of Reading Rainbow discovered our book and asked us to collaborate with him on The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm, a new project to help children heal from trauma. The Rhino book was released in 2014, and has been on an incredible journey – including trips to Good Morning America, the International Space Station and being read aloud by First Lady Michelle Obama to children on a military base.
Our latest picture book release, The Big Adventures of Tiny House, explores the meaning of home and introduces children to concepts of sustainable living and building a community. In the end, we find that home isn't a place, but a feeling in your heart.
All of our books came from the heart and have a purpose: to help children feel loved and connected to their world.
A few months later, LeVar Burton of Reading Rainbow discovered our book and asked us to collaborate with him on The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm, a new project to help children heal from trauma. The Rhino book was released in 2014, and has been on an incredible journey – including trips to Good Morning America, the International Space Station and being read aloud by First Lady Michelle Obama to children on a military base.
Our latest picture book release, The Big Adventures of Tiny House, explores the meaning of home and introduces children to concepts of sustainable living and building a community. In the end, we find that home isn't a place, but a feeling in your heart.
All of our books came from the heart and have a purpose: to help children feel loved and connected to their world.
Creative Expression is a Powerful Source of Emotional Healing.
The ability to express feelings through creativity has brought hope and light back into our own lives after tough times. Music, dance and movement, visual arts, poetry, crafting and connecting with nature are all valuable and engaging ways to bring meaning into our lives, and make meaning out of circumstances that sometimes make no sense. When we feel grief, despair, loss, confusion, depression or sorrow - oftentimes we can feel better just through the process of making something with our hands, singing words from our heart, beating our pain out onto the skin of a drum, or sitting in a quiet woods or a rocky beach and reflecting on the cycles of life surrounding us.
We wrote these books and created this website for:
Thank you for choosing to do this incredibly important work to heal and strengthen the hearts of families in our communities. We hope that our books and the activities featured here will bring comfort to you and the children in your life.
We wrote these books and created this website for:
- Parents, Family, Caregivers and Friends seeking to console children who are in need of a little extra reassurance and love, for whatever reason -perhaps because they are grieving the death of a beloved person or a pet, being far away from a beloved grandparent, coping with their parents' divorce or a move, or dealing with separation anxiety as they start school or a parent goes back to work or takes a business trip. Sun Kisses, Moon Hugs is also a wonderfully soothing bedtime story for any child or grandchild!
- Teachers and Librarians who are looking for books and activities to ease separation anxiety when school starts and help children develop social skills, EQ and emotional resilience. Everyone will experience loss and personal struggle at some point - it is the nature of being human. It is vitally important that our kids learn the vocabulary, social skills and emotional literacy to navigate dark times in their lives.
- Therapists, Social Workers, Child Life specialists and Grief Counselors who work with children experiencing grief, loss, separation anxiety, natural disasters, abuse, addiction or trauma and are seeking resources and activities to connect with their young clients.
- Bereavement Counselors, Hospice Caregivers, Hospital Staff and others who are looking for a book to comfort a child facing the death of a parent, sibling, or other loved one.
Thank you for choosing to do this incredibly important work to heal and strengthen the hearts of families in our communities. We hope that our books and the activities featured here will bring comfort to you and the children in your life.
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