Elora Media carries music, such as Grammy Award winning songwriter Bunny Hull's "A Child's Spirit" and “Creation,” as well as other music kits on CD. The company also sells noted children’s author Etan Boritzer’s What Is? series on its website. His latest release,
What is Peace?, is number eight in a series that includes the famous (or infamous depending on your point of view)
What is God?
“Most publishing companies - they're not looking for interesting titles,” says Boritzer, “they're looking to make money. And there's nothing scarier for children’s publishing companies apparently than addressing things like religion. So they don’t touch it. …. Today nine-tenths of what children are reading are these kind of Disney books like The Little Mermaid - entertainment types of books. And there’s nothing wrong with that. But children have the capacity and the need and desire to get into the serious conceptual matters. And this is where I think the marriage between Elora Media and the What Is? series will be wonderful.”
Not only will Elora Media products dive bravely into big concepts for little people, they will unabashedly focus on strengthening children’s innate spiritual connectedness, and bolstering their feelings of natural “just rightness” – something that sometimes gets lost in the Baby Einstein drive for age-bracketed developmental performance markers.
Like many parents, Chasse has devoured child developmental books to make sure she’s doing all the right things to ensure her daughters’ success later in life. But she also had a big “ah hah” about the modern focus on children developing early reading skills, early potty training, early math skills, early everything, while working with actress Marlee Matlin on the BLEEP set.
“I was talking about Ella and how she was starting to walk or something,” says Chasse, “and Marlee looked at me with pure joy in her face and said, ‘I have the epitome of a princess in my house. She is 13 months, she has no teeth, she doesn't choose to walk, and she's perfectly happy.’
“Most parents would be in total panic mode at that point if their child wasn't walking or teething or whatever it was. But she's had four children and she knew that that baby was going to do what she wanted to do, when she chose to do it. And she was allowing enough as a mother to give her the space to be able to do that. And that was a great lesson for me.”
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