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Short Stories, Notes, and Thoughts from Crystal Rose
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How the Book Nook at Spread the Word Nevada Came Together
A tour, a flyer left on my desk, and a project that had just fallen through. Six weeks later, 2,500 books had gone home with Nevada families.
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Spreading Kindness Through Supporting Great Causes
A village in Bolivia with dirt floors and no running water taught me what my father’s death had left me asking. It is the reason a portion of every book goes out…
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Ways to Be Like Hootie and Not Blow Up
Star charts worked for one of my children and not the others. Here is the counting song we invented instead, and the pufferfish who taught it to us.
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You Don’t Need Superpowers to Be a Superhuman
My uncle drove my father to every appointment for eighteen months. He would have called it a lift. To my dad it was everything. That is where this book came from.
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Be Like Humble the Bee: Finding Ways to Share Kindness
Humble the Bee began as a first-day-of-school lesson at our kitchen table. Here is the challenge I set my children, and what they came home saying.
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Who I Am, and the Why Behind Crystal Rose Publishing
My grandmother called me her Crystal Rose. Here is how a girl who read poetry on a shed roof in northern Utah ended up writing picture books for her grandchildren.