Project: The Peculiar Tales of the S.S. Bungalow
Creator: Laki Karavias (part of the large group of folks making the S.S. Bunglow)
Description: There are many folks using Kickstarter to raise funds for their first kids music album, but few such projects whose ideas seem as fully thought as that from the Portland-based collective of artists who want to make a very nautically-themed story and album.
Project Title: The Phantom Tollbooth: Beyond Expectations - Final Push
Creator: Hannah Jayanti
Description: I don't think there's much I need to say about this particular project. It's the last bit of funding filmmaker Jayanti is seeking to complete The Phantom Tollbooth : Beyond Expectations , a documentary on the classic book by Norton Juster and illustrated by Jules Feiffer. Post-production, legal, marketing -- not exactly fun, but necessary indeed. Hey, even Bill Harley's involved.
Tim Sheridan works as a creative director in Chicago, doing digital marketing and advertising. Sheridan joined me this week to talk about his Kickstarter illustrated children's book project, getting The Low Anthem to agree to have their music part of the book, writing speeches for Steven Tyler, and the slooooooow gestation process of bringing kids books out into the world.
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Dee Duncan (illustrator)
Project Title: The Code Witch: A Novel
Creator: Sarah Sterman / Elise Guinee-Cooper
Description : Programmer Ada Lovelace is having a bit of a Kickstarter moment. There was Wollstonecraft, a YA novel about Lovelace and Mary Shelley (programming and steampunk), and now a novel from a pair of Stanford University seniors, Sarah Sterman and Elise Guinee-Cooper are writing The Code Witch . It's a pre-teen fantasy novel featuring a female programmer, whose setup is described as "a dragon shows up at Ada's door, starting an adventure of magic and coding."
Miss Mary Mack might very well be the perfect target audience for this novel -- interested in reading and math, and probably susceptible to being swayed into coding. Even though my coding days never got past computer science classes in high school, I'm excited about the idea that more women should be coding, and every little bit, even fictional narratives, can change the culture. $8 gets you the e-book, $15, the paperback.
The first Kickstarter project I backed was Elena Moon Park's Rabbit Days and Dumplings, a family music album of songs from East Asia. Besides the album having a Dan Zanes pedigree, always a good sign, it had personal meaning for me.
It took me awhile before I really got into crowdfunding and Kickstarter generally, but now I'm a big supporter. While I like Kickstarter, I think the site does a poor job of highlighting projects for kids and families. They have a children's book category, but no children's music category, and there's no other easy way to find projects targeted at the younger set.
I'm hoping to change that just a little bit with this new show. I'm going to feature creators of Kickstarter projects pitched for kids and families while their project is underway. So if you've got a young 'un in your life, I hope you'll tune and find projects they (and you) can enjoy.
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