• a story that makes a difference •
Livi & Grace
Grace is carefree, loves bright prints, splashing barefoot in puddles—and playing with her boots unlaced. Her older sister, Livi, loves to write, prefers ballet flats, and doing things just right. When Grace speeds by on her bicycle, her hair flies in the wind, and her feet barely touch the pedals. When Livi rides her bicycle, her hair is in a proper ponytail, and she’s the picture of perfect form.
While the sisters seem to have totally opposite tastes in everything—from clothes to food to sports—what they do have in common is just how much they love, celebrate, and respect their sibling’s opposite personality.
With fun rhyme and colorful illustrations, Livi & Grace models behavior for young readers that acknowledges that everyone has value, no matter their likes and dislikes or how they look or dress.
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Activities
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Tap into your inner Livi or Grace and write your own special message to a friend.
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Color in Livi & Grace's
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Color in the superstars.
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Celebrate YOUR uniqueness. Available in B&W and color.
Illustrated by Missi Jay
If you love the illustrations in Livi & Grace, all credit goes to the AMAZING Missy Jay. Her work has earned recognition from Print Magazine and the Addy Awards, and she won the Big Wig Award for best illustrator from the Austin Advertising Federation. You can check out her other work as an illustrator and graphic designer at Gigglebox.
Charitable Partnerships
Jenn is a proud advocate for several organizations that benefit children in a variety of ways, and has created a program that offers you a chance to help her make the biggest impact possible. If you, or your organization, has interest in making an in-kind donation of Livi & Grace to either cause please send me a message and I’d be overjoyed to help.
CASA exists to promote and protect the best interest of children who have been abused or neglected, by training volunteers to advocate for them in courts, in schools and in our community to help them find safe, permanent and loving homes. I have been an advocate with CASA of Travis County since 2003 with the goal to provide for every child in need a trained advocate, a safe home and a promising future.
I’ve become a part of Literacy First in Austin and would like to help fulfill some of their existing need for book donations. Literacy First, for the past twenty-five years, has been successfully closing the literacy gap in our underprivileged schools by providing daily, one-on-one tutoring to kindergarten through second grade students who are reading at below grade level. I am honored that they have selected Livi & Grace to be part of their program.