From the hive
Stories & Notes
Notes from a small publishing house: ways to read kindness aloud with a four-year-old, glimpses of how the artwork gets made, and the occasional bit of news. Written for the grown-ups doing the reading.
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Reading kindness aloud: five questions to ask on the last page
A picture book does its best work in the conversation that follows it. Here are five questions that turn Humble’s story into something a child can…
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Painting Humble: how 36 pages come to life in acrylic
Every illustration in Spreading Kindness with Dandelion Dust was painted by hand. Illustrator Michelle Clayton on hives, hairline antennae, and why a bee needs five eyes.
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Why dandelions?
Most people call them weeds. They are also the first food many bees find in spring, and the only flower that turns its own goodbye into…
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The kindness that costs something
Humble goes to bed hungry so two flowers can be sung to. That detail is deliberate, and it is the part of the story worth talking…
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Our first book arrives September 1
Spreading Kindness with Dandelion Dust is the first title from Crystal Rose Publishing. Here is what we are publishing, and why we started.