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A percentage of our profits are donated to literacy projects in Arkansas, and in particular to Reach Out and Read Arkansas,



  



  Brain Child Press, Inc. is a privately held corporation based in Little Rock, Arkansas. We are an independent publisher of children's nonfiction picture books, related teaching materials, and educational games.  

  Dr. Peggy Sissel-Phelan is the founder, President and CEO. She holds a  Doctorate from The Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University, anda  Masters degree in Education from Michigan State University.  She completed her Bachelors degree in Communications at the University of Iowa.

  She has over 30 years of experience as a community educator, professor, researcher, author, advocate, and consultant and is the recipient of numerous honors, including a
Kellogg Fellowship. 

  Download her complete Curriculum Vitae here.  

  

   Our mission is to develop child and family-friend books and materials that help create healthy individuals and communities.  

  At Brain Child Press, we consider this to be helping children reach their cognitive potential, promoting their physical health and emotional well-being, teaching under-standing and respect for others, creating awareness of the environment, the world, and their place within it, and encour-aging involvement in their communities.

Our focus is on developing kid and family friendly resources for use by professionals, teachers, program coordinators, parents and others in their efforts to create healthy, literate, actively engaged children, families, and  communities.  


       In 2001 a nonprofit organization called AR Well Child READs! was founded in Arkansas by Chad Rodgers, M.D., FAAP and Peggy Sissel-Phelan, Ed.D. as an effort to promote pediatric literacy intervention programs in the state.  Arkansas ranks among the lowest in the nation in literacy acquisition, educational attainment, income level and health status.   

      The aim was to disseminate the Reach Out and Reach Program to every doctor's office and health clinic, and to develop and promote similar programs for WIC clinics and human service programs that serve low-income families. 

    Brain Child Books grew out of the  awareness of the need for easy-to-read picture books about nutrition, health, and development that would both educate children and families and provide them with a stimulating literacy experience.  Thus, Brain Child Books, and its parent company,  Brain Child Press was born.  
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Brain Child Press, Inc.
13324 Beckenham Drive, Suite 100
Little Rock, AR  72212
501-837-5081 (voice)
501-228-0908 (FAX)




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