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Our book, "A Children's History of Grand Marais, Minnesota: Ice Cream & Fish" placed in the top 3 books in the state in the Community Creates division of the Minnesota Author Awards competition! To honor our success, organizers invited us to sign books at the 2021 Twin Cities Book Fair Oct. 16 at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds. |
We Are Publishing YOUR Book Next!
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MCP Mentor Kip is a hands-on guy. You'll learn a lot from him, especially about illustrating with stick figures. And coping. And cows. While studying acting at Ireland's National Theatre School, The Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Kip never forgot his Minnesota roots and love of the land, its creatures and beverages. He visited the Irish countryside, farms and cows whenever possible, stopping for a nip of milk now and then.
FREE & FUN! Receive 1 gift copy of Kip's 18-page, full color, softcover book, An Illustrated Guide to Kip's Shakespearean Insults! as our thanks for your tax-free donation to Minnesota Children's Press. |
New in May 2020! Read An Illustrated Guide to Kip's Shakespearean Insults! by Kip Hathaway, Minnesota Children's Press (MCP) illustration and story mentor, actor, comic and stick figure artist.
It's the first in our children's mental health series on creative resilience to help kids cope with the uncertainties caused by:
Looking back at his early self, Kip, now 25, shares the wobbles he's known and illustrated in his middle school and high school notebooks. In his Dear Reader preface to Kip's Illustrated Shakespearean Insults Kip explains how he drew his way out of some depressing days. His spirit-stick figure Bob even showed up in Kip's college application in an essay about the most influential people in his life. Kip invites your questions. Write and draw to Kip about your experiences, or send questions to: kip@minnchildpress.org. 
In Ireland, at The Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Kip was cast as a cat and took the role seriously. He takes your questions seriously, too.
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MinnChild brings mentored, mobile publishing labs to your school, interest group, club, 4H meet-ups or county fair. During 2021 COVID-19 precautions, we make the publishing magic happen remotely: virtually, online, through distance mentoring and publishing.
If you don't have a group, join our Story Scouts Club. You can read about one in Grand Marais, Minnesota, USA: www.storyscouts.org. These kids wanted to write about global health to help raise money to improve children's health in Africa. What's your topic? Love history? Join our Digital Rural History Project! Help us research, interview, write and illustrate multigenerational stories of community in rural Minnesota. During our Outdoor Book Camp, generously funded in part by the Lloyd K. Johnson Foundation, kids on Minnesota's North Shore published "A Children's History of Grand Marais, Minnesota: Ice Cream & Fish" in 2020, www.icecreamandfish.org. We expect a second printing this summer to meet demand! Our dream: To collect child-authored and -illustrated histories from around rural Minnesota to create a child-eye's-view anthology of life in our state. Learn conversational and interview skills, like these Grand Marais Story Scouts in the video interviewing Ron about what his Grand Marais high school days were like 65 years ago. Then watch our writers craft their story and ponder fonts as they develop their entrepreneurial writing instincts. When you start a project with us, our professional, award-winning writers, editors, and publishers help you tell your stories with style and clarity, and in the process, help you "skill up" for 21st century communication challenges by teaching entrepreneurial writing, illustration, editing, publishing, web design, and related career skills. We finalize the files of your project with you, then print whenever possible with local printers in your area. If there aren't any, we print in Minnesota—occasionally in upstate New York—but always in the United States to ensure our books are non-toxic. |
Sharks & Rocks. Watch this 20-second video to see how a hole in a rock inspires a story involving a cookie-cutter shark.
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Castle cover ©Aaron, 9, for a class-written text about their medieval history studies.
TEXT BOOKS DIY and show what you knowDARK TIMES TRIBUNE Creative teachers can assign the publishing of a class-authored and illustrated text book to serve as a summative learning assessment for a topic they studied. Forget tests and reports. Book crafting is a far more demanding, rewarding, and instructive interdisciplinary project. Fourth-graders in St. Paul's Capitol Hill Magnet School learned this with their unit on Medieval Life and their creation of Dark Times Tribune. They supplemented class lessons with research. |
We have worked with children for 10 years to write and publish children's newspapers. Click image to see the archives of our Children's Newseum of child-authored newspapers.
NEWSPAPERS Create your positive community AEROBIC NEWSPAPERS Newspapers written and illustrated by children—who walk to do their reporting, making it an aerobic newspaper—bring fresh voices and visions to community dialogue that connect, enrich, and delight. Newspapers are a foundation of our free American society because they encourage civil discussions that lead to productive, problem solving. |
My First Farm, book, ©Julia, 8. She drew the dog and chicken on our logo, too.
BOOKS Tell your story, your way, your genreMY FIRST FARM & JACK'S STORY The youngest Story Scouts create with paper and pencil, as 8-year-old author-illustrator Julia from Rochester does above in her book, My First Farm. Older Story Scouts, such as Sammie, 13, from Grand Marais, are fully digital in research, writing, and web book. Her story is historical fiction about the life of Jack, a Depression-era orphan. Sammie has been the editor of BorealCorps.org, Cook County's children's newspaper, since 6th grade. |
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