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Elite Books 4 Kids Welcome!
Greetings to all school officials, department heads, educator, teachers, staff, parents
In February 2021 Argyro Graphy launched her 4-corners
of kindness projects. Kind to Each Other, Kind to book reading and creatives.
Animals, Kind to the Environment and Kind to
Ourselves. She created a 30-day kindness calendar, 1am EST I am pleased to present to you the first official Bentley's Book Club
hoping to get children to participate and teach them to Elite Books 4 Kids catalog.
identify opportunities to be kind. Her goal was 35
participants. She could not believe it when the number As Indie authors, we all have our stories and reasons for writing, and the sad reality is
of registrations soared past 700. that many books are never found in the mounds of books published daily.
Through Bentley's Book Club and Elite Books 4 Kids, I am happy to share some of
these books with you in this first edition. My hope is to make this an annual online
"I was busy creating the activities that I did not monitor the registration numbers, and
when I checked prior to the deadline, my jaw literally dropped. I never imagined there publication that will feature self-published books. The books included in this
would be this amount of interest, especially with a new project that has no prior history publication cover topics such as kindness, friendship, courage, imagination, grief,
of success or failure." climate change to name a few. All with important topics and themes written by very
talented and passionate authors. Books range from pre-k up to middle grade and
It was through the kindness projects and the positive feedback from the children, teachers teens. I'm sure you will find your next great read here! Happy browsing and thank
and parents that Argyro recruited a team of six (6) children ages 5-8, representing 5 you for your support.
countries. The most amazing part she adds is that the children would report to her things What's Inside!
that they were doing without being told to. Argyro often read stories to the kids followed
by question and answer period. It wasn't long before the children thought of themselves as reviews from our review team, plus
"experienced reviewers" hence the creation of Elite Books 4 Kids (Bentley's Book Club)
Argyro extended a promo offer to the author community that included having their books
reviewed by her Junior Review Team. Together with the kids, a decision was made to 100 books / 48 authors with links
donate any and all proceeds collected from any services offered, including this catalog.
Some of the reviews of the books read are included in this catalog. The reviews are in their
raw form, unedited to show the innocence and honesty of the children. Our Junior Review Team
6 kids ages 5-8
When asked if the book review service will continue, Argyro replied "I will continue to
work with these kids, and have since had requests from teachers and parents to add more
kids to the team. I have new daily challenges and struggles to overcome, and don't want How we started
to tire my good eye. It is a lot of work given the time difference, but The projects
produced results that I'm proud of. Another option may be to also recruit other authors
to this initiative." Who is Bentley?
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Virtual interview with Ms. Argyro Graphy (author) and Mrs. Anita Singh (Kindergarten Lead) Sept 2022