Dr. Cara Natterson Book Signing – November 6

Dr. Cara at home with the family

Pediatrician Dr. Cara Natterson will be at Scribble Press on Friday, November 6 from 5 to 7 talking about her new book Dangerous or Safe:  Which Foods, Medicines and Chemicals Really Put Your Kids at Risk.  There will be refreshments served and she’ll say a few words about her research into this timely issue and what she found.

Personally, I am really looking forward to hearing what she has to say.    It will be refreshing to know what we can stop worrying about – the default these days seems to be worrying about anything and everything.  I’d also like to know what we do really need to worry about.  Let’s make sure if we are worrying, it’s about something that actually matters.

Dr. Cara is well-known locally in Santa Monica and this should be an interesting and lively event.  You can read her blog at  http://dangerousorsafe.com or buy a copy of her book now from our website if you can’t make it – http://scribblepress.com/e-store/prod_details.asp?pcid=1&cid=1612193595807&pid=2714474230934.  Stop on by next Friday evening to hear what she has to say.

E! That Morning Show Visits Scribble Press

E!  Correspondent Scott Cushing and producer Peter Glowski visited Scribble Press last week and shot a really funny segment for That Morning Show.

There were a bunch of Scribble Press regulars there – kids – and they didn’t know quite what to make of Scott or the camera, which made it even funnier.   Scott wrote a book during his visit about his rivalry with another E! correspondent, Mark Long.  The book turned out great and we are selling copies of it on our website, with part of the proceeds going to benefit LA Family Housing.  Scott has a youtube channel -

http://www.youtube.com/user/CushTV

 

and you can buy copies of the book he wrote at http://scribblepress.com   – also see the video there!  Thanks for coming in, guys – we had a great time!

Learning about Color with Shaving Cream

 

Everyone enjoying shaving cream at our Colors class

From guest blogger Christy, our director of marketing:

 

Spent a fantastic hour with my toddler yesterday in the Scribblets Colors class. Made an amazing red painting for her book. Can’t wait to show it off to the family! Read a great book, sang songs….and, best of all, learned about colors by dropping watercolors into mounds of shaving cream and using our hands to mix it! The moms had a blast, the kids were laughing….everyone was smiling and everyone left in a little bit of a brighter mood! What a way to start the day! That’s what it’s all about!

 

This is what art class is all about!

From some other parents:

“I love the format and pace of this class.  The kids are entertained the whole time.  My son can’t wait to go back every week.” – Darrin, mom of 2-year-old boy

“My daughter came home and said to her brothers: “do you guys know who Van Gogh is, because I DO!” – Jennifer, mom of kindergarten girl

News from our brand-new preschool and elementary level classes

Painting with trucks in Colors Class

Photos from our first-ever class in the new Montana Avenue location!  This class is Scribblets: Colors – a class for kids 2-3.5.  The 9 kids in this class had a great time creating a blue page for their color book, hunting for blue treasures around the store, reading about the little blue truck and playing trucks in the big rice bin….Next up – yellow!!

We are offering free trials on all our classes – ABCs for the 4 and 5 set, Things that Oink & Quack & Moo, Creative Writing for K – 2nd grade, comic books and Famous Artists. 

We’d love to hear your feedback on the classes and to see you here for a trial!

Anna, Christy, Erin, Kerry, Carita, Adam, Brian and the rest of the Classes team

Scribble Press Grand Opening Montana Avenue

We’re moving to Santa Monica!

We’re busy this month prepping our brand new, much bigger space in the heart of Santa Monica – 1109 Montana Avenue.  The new location will have more of everything you love about Scribble Press – a bigger studio space with natural light, a larger party lounge, a full schedule of classes beginning in September, unusual art and creativity gifts (including a brand-new pencil bar!).  And did we mention free parking behind the store? 

Come visit us on our grand opening August 8 or anytime after that. 

And in the meantime, check out this post about Scribble Press on the Intuit website!  http://smallbusiness.intuit.com/blog/where-small-is-going/2009/07/scribble-me-this-scribble-me-that-draft.html

Making Books at the Leimert Park Book Fair

Making instant board books with kids from Leimert Park area

We had a great time last weekend at the Leimert Park Book Fair making board books with kids.  The kids wrote and illustrated their books and we turned them into books while they watched.  Just over 200 kids were able to make a book (and some grown-ups as well).  A special thanks to Fair organizer Cynthia Exum and to Nestle for sponsoring the Scribble Press Book Booth.  We saw books of all kinds – many kids made “All About Me” and many others made up their own stories from scratch.  And they all walked away with their professionally bound books!

What happens at a Scribble Press comic book workshop?

 

Military Cookies by Flynn R.

We just finished another session of Comic Book/Graphic Novel classes at the store.  The class was full of lively and talented boys who wrote some very entertaining comic books.  The picture above is from Flynn’s book, Military Cookies which will make you look at Chips Ahoy in a very different light!  Two of the boy’s books were published and are available on our website.  You can purchase copies of these or other Kid Author books by visiting www.scribblepress.com

Cool book collage

I just wanted to share this photo

Mothers Day Book Preview

Make A Book for Mothers Day

It’s time again for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and teacher gift books! Last year many kids made books for Father’s Day – now it’s time to give Mom her due. I saw some other really great mother’s day projects start coming through the store and I will put them up here as soon as I get permission – notepads, cards, placemats….In the meantime you can order a book with an author photo on it from our website to complete at home, or visit us to make one while you wait. – here is the link to the online catalog. http://tinyurl.com/dm7j3l