Fully Funded! Thank you Coli
Fun fact: Coli is the highest backers in numbers and amounts out of all referrals. You guys LITERALLY funded half of this project solo. It will never say "Coli" referral because coli auto embeds anything into a widget. But I been tracking this from the beginning, when people were backing left and right from the Coli. The only catagory going up when people literally said "I backed you homie" was these two catagories.
Atlanta Blackstar covered us. Here is their article.
'We Need to Normalize the Black Family Again:' Author Hopes to Reinforce Traditional Families with New Children's Book
LAST UPDATE:
Need a good excuse to buy all black for Christmas? Here it is.
This is the last days and we unlocked the Black Sands Megabundle. If you love our company, you can now get every book we offer in one unique package. By Christmas, we will be shipping out:
Be sure to select the megabundle tier. If you already backed, up your pledge!
And yes, there is a strong black father leading the family.
This Birmingham, AL mother of two and breast cancer survivor Geiszel Godoy wanted her children to see an entire black family having fun together in their books. Since there were none in the market, she made her own series called Mori’s Family Adventures. She made the entire first book as a proof of concept then went straight to Kickstarter to continue the movement to normalize the black family for kids.
Geiszel toured the country for months with her husband Manuel Godoy as he sold his comics Kids 2 Kings at various events. During that time, she noticed all the mothers and fathers bringing their kids to those events. This started to bother her, because the mainstream narrative about black children and youth is that they come from broken homes, yet her husband’s core customers were these “mythical” dads.
This motivated her to create a book series featuring her family. She designed the book to tackle two very big myths that circulate the main stream media and also haunts the black community internally.
1. Promote the black family unit with a positive experience and show them having fun together.
2. Show that Black Travel Matters by showing a typical black family traveling the world, visiting real locations, and bringing back amazing memories.
I need every Black Man who cares about Representation without no hidden agendas to donate atleast $5 dollars to my wife's campaign. I am managing it and i brought you guys Kids 2 Kings. You know I got you.!
Watch these Kickstarter videos from this project and if you want to support, click the campaign and go hard.
This project was created by Black Sands Entertainment. They also created the extremely popular series Kids 2 Kings and successfully funded it in Kickstarter in March.
You know they will do what they say they will do.
BTW, the promotion is Christmas delivery for Book 1, Print, and Greetings Card.
Merry Christmas homies.
Also, if you lack the funds to support, please join our Thunderclap campaign to raise awareness.
Help my children's book series
Fun fact: Coli is the highest backers in numbers and amounts out of all referrals. You guys LITERALLY funded half of this project solo. It will never say "Coli" referral because coli auto embeds anything into a widget. But I been tracking this from the beginning, when people were backing left and right from the Coli. The only catagory going up when people literally said "I backed you homie" was these two catagories.
Atlanta Blackstar covered us. Here is their article.
Many kids are given the gift of exploring new worlds through storytelling. Many parents join in on the nighttime ritual of reading to their children before they go to bed, and these books often provide important life lessons from characters that the children can relate to.
But representation of kids of color in children’s books is often hard to find. According to the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, in 2012 of the 3,600 books reviewed by the CCBC, over 93 percent of children’s books were written about white children. As of 2016, 73.3 percent of children’s books were primarily about white children, while 12.5 percent featured non-humans and animals.
While children’s books are getting more diverse over the years, the truth is they’re still disproportionately white. But Geiszel Godoy — alongside her husband, Manuel Godoy, a veteran children’s book author of the “Kids 2 Kings” series, which follows four royal children with superpowers — hopes to add her name to that slow-growing list of writers of children’s books that feature characters of color.
With a masters in business management, the Birmingham native set out to find a job after her schooling ended. But when she noticed the lack of job opportunities for women of color in Atlanta, she decided to join the army in 2005, where she was based in Germany. After serving for 3 1/2 years, she was forced into early retirement due to a back injury. But Godoy didn’t consider becoming an author until 2014 when her son, Mori, was born.
After seeing the success of “Kids 2 Kings” she was inspired to write a children’s book herself. “Mori’s Family Adventures” was then born. The book series, which is based off her own life, follows a typical American family as they travel around the world, Godoy says.
“My son and daughter are my biggest inspirations. Seeing them live a life of ‘privilege’ made me want to share that experience with other kids, while also emphasizing the traditional Black family unit.”
The Mori’s Family Adventure features Manuel (the father), Geiszel (the mother), Valencia (the sister), and Mori Godoy (the “star”), and their adventures while traveling the world. (Photo from Kickstarter).
Godoy decided to focus the book on traveling after brainstorming with her husband for months. After he suggested doing something close to her heart, there was no question that traveling with her family was atop the list.
“I love telling our story and showing my husband as the alpha male leading the family,” Godoy said. “It seems tradition has been thrown to the side recently, and I felt it was important for kids to see a mother and father together in a children’s book.”
“We need to normalize the Black family again. The mainstream media is hellbent on pushing the narrative of the broken home, but it’s not true,” Godoy said.
The writer is currently running a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise funds for the production of more books in the series. Those who pledge $20 or more will be able to donate to the campaign and receive the first book “Mori’s Family Adventures: South Africa,” with guaranteed before-Christmas delivery. Those who pledge $70 or more will be able to receive the book “Mori’s Family Adventures: Rome” before anyone else.
The next book Godoy hopes to write is a 16-page story based off of the family’s adventure in Rome, Italy, and later a book of the family’s previous travels through China and Egypt. The writer hopes to see the books distributed to classrooms for students just starting to read on their own, as a way to expose young readers to different cultures.
“I think it is literally the most important thing in the world for Black families to feel normal,” Godoy said. “I make stories that show Black families as the awesome things they are, and my husband makes stories about the awesome things they are destined to be.”
'We Need to Normalize the Black Family Again:' Author Hopes to Reinforce Traditional Families with New Children's Book
LAST UPDATE:
Need a good excuse to buy all black for Christmas? Here it is.
This is the last days and we unlocked the Black Sands Megabundle. If you love our company, you can now get every book we offer in one unique package. By Christmas, we will be shipping out:
- book 1 - south africa
- greetings card
- kids 2 kings #1
- kids 2 kings #2
- Sons of Nibiru #1
- Set of Kids 2 Kings Bookmarks.
Be sure to select the megabundle tier. If you already backed, up your pledge!
And yes, there is a strong black father leading the family.
This Birmingham, AL mother of two and breast cancer survivor Geiszel Godoy wanted her children to see an entire black family having fun together in their books. Since there were none in the market, she made her own series called Mori’s Family Adventures. She made the entire first book as a proof of concept then went straight to Kickstarter to continue the movement to normalize the black family for kids.
Geiszel toured the country for months with her husband Manuel Godoy as he sold his comics Kids 2 Kings at various events. During that time, she noticed all the mothers and fathers bringing their kids to those events. This started to bother her, because the mainstream narrative about black children and youth is that they come from broken homes, yet her husband’s core customers were these “mythical” dads.
This motivated her to create a book series featuring her family. She designed the book to tackle two very big myths that circulate the main stream media and also haunts the black community internally.
1. Promote the black family unit with a positive experience and show them having fun together.
2. Show that Black Travel Matters by showing a typical black family traveling the world, visiting real locations, and bringing back amazing memories.
I need every Black Man who cares about Representation without no hidden agendas to donate atleast $5 dollars to my wife's campaign. I am managing it and i brought you guys Kids 2 Kings. You know I got you.!
Watch these Kickstarter videos from this project and if you want to support, click the campaign and go hard.
This project was created by Black Sands Entertainment. They also created the extremely popular series Kids 2 Kings and successfully funded it in Kickstarter in March.
You know they will do what they say they will do.
BTW, the promotion is Christmas delivery for Book 1, Print, and Greetings Card.
Merry Christmas homies.
Also, if you lack the funds to support, please join our Thunderclap campaign to raise awareness.
Help my children's book series
She said fukk dem kids.
Although I got the big square drawing as well...I’ll make use of the card & Imma prolly take the book to a local library.
