LPP: Stimulating Explorations of Meaningful Topics

By Rana DiOrio, Founder, Little Pickle Press
August 6, 2010

Our New Mission Statement. Just as it is a good exercise to go through your closet periodically and decide what you ought to keep and what you ought to give away, it is also a good idea for a company to reassess and reevaluate its mission on occasion. During a team exercise recently, Little Pickle Press refined its Mission Statement to read as follows:

Little Pickle Press is dedicated to helping parents and educators cultivate conscious, responsible little people by stimulating explorations of the meaningful topics of their generation through a variety of media, technologies, and techniques.

I thought it might be helpful to explain in practice what this means for LPP and for you, our valued reader and customer.

Explorations of Meaningful Topics. We believe that in the 21st Century, an exploration of a subject matter involves activity in the physical world as well as the digital one. Accordingly, we want to develop material for both. In the physical world, we have books and posters. Soon we will have flash cards or other creative, educational games. In the digital world, we have eBooks, music, and book trailer videos. Soon we will have an iPad application and videos featuring experts who will explain how best to explore a meaningful topic with a child.

Your Input Matters To Us. We need your input in order to deliver the best possible content and supporting products. As parents, teachers, grandparents, or people who care about shaping our children, you have a strong sense of what topics you would like to explore with the children in your life and what tools would be most helpful to you as you do so with them. We’re listening. Please submit your ideas to info@littlepicklepress.com. While you are at it, please consider participating in our Grand Prize Giveaway to name the next book in our What Does It Mean To Be . . .?™ series http://bit.ly/an1mVg.