Enjoy our first monthly Anniversary Celebration Gift (below) & follow your North Star, Peter & Paul

Peter & Paul Reynolds, CEO/President, FableVision-Boston

Mary read THE NORTH STAR four years ago after her son brought the book home from school, where award-winning educator Wade Whitehead was busily integrating the book's themes into his classroom. She saw the transformational effect on her son - and quickly its potential as an expanded/scripted musical play.

Mary then collaborated with Tim Beckman, a music teacher and composer, who had already created THE NORTH STAR MUSICAL JOURNEY, which includes 11 original songs based on the book (Also available as an easy "perform-in-YOUR-school" full performance kit from FableVision!) The dynamic duo teamed with Peter and FableVision - adding more characters and dialogue to turn the book into a full- length, family musical. Wade led an in-service last Sunday night (with Pat Wilhelms, MMT Director of Ed), Tim penned five new songs for the production, and FableVision created over a dozen animated stage backdrops that were projected as "multimedia scenery." Discussions are already in process for a national tour of this amazing new stage production - stay tuned!

Dea Cox, Technology Facilitator of the Macon County Elementary School in North Carolina, recently shared her school's newsletter with the FableVision Team. Check out how the students in this school have been inspired by STATIONERY STUDIO to become non- stop writers! Read the Newsletter..

Thank you Dea for sharing your feedback with us. The smiles on the children's faces are fuel for our mission! (If YOU have a story, please let us know and we'll share with the rest of the extended FableVision community.)

FableVision now happily shares the Carnegie honors with co-producer Scholastic Weston Woods. Medals will be given to all individuals involved in the project, including Peter H. Reynolds, Karen Bresnahan, Gary Goldberger, and Jonathan Meath , along with Paul Gagne and Melissa Reilly of Weston Woods.

Many thanks to ALSC and ALA for taking such good care of us. We appreciate it. And, of course thanks also go to our wonderful partners at Weston Woods, with whom we just completed the new animated version of Peter's book sequel to THE DOT, called ISH!

FableVision also has many partners we work with who sell our products, so if you don't see us, don't forget you can ask about STATIONERY STUDIO, BRAINCOGS, ESSAY EXPRESS, and GET A CLUE from almost any popular software catalog or online merchant.

P.S. Check out FableVision's Online Events Listing to see if we'll be in YOUR neighborhood! :-)

Ever since, we've been creating cutting-edge original content ... museum kiosks, animation, original character design, websites, CD-ROMs, educational software applications and lots of streaming content delivery. We've been fortunate to work with great partners, such as Pearson Education, Boston University, PBS, Scott Foresman, Carnegie Hall, Scholastic, and more. In the last year, we've also opened offices in the UK and U.S. west coast. It was also the year of our first product acquisition, the online vocabulary program GET A CLUE® which teaches vocabulary through stories. GET A CLUE joins our family of products which has grown to include award winning, STATIONERY STUDIO, BRAINCOGS, and ESSAY EXPRESS software products, in addition to our DVDs, books and classroom kits which continue to provide inspiration in the classroom.

We want to thank all our great friends who have supported our mission. So, as part of FableVision's ten year celebration - along with a BIG party later this year, we'll be posting a Treat-of- the-Month every month for the whole year! We hope you check back each month - and enjoy!