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“TRAVEL GEAR” PARENTS’ SURVIVAL GUIDE OFFERS FIVE ESSENTIALS FOR SUMMER TRAVEL, SUMMER FUN
New York, NY – Tuesday, June 1, 2010: Wherever families choose to vacation or staycation this summer, here’s the perfect packable: TRAVEL GEAR, a BackPax Parents’ Survival Guide. And it’s a free!
With Travel Gear, a free downloadable e-book, BackPax is celebrating the release of the newly digitized CD BackPax classic audio and book “Adventures in Learning.” Featuring the five pieces of equipment essential to every parent’s survival, Travel Gear is guaranteed to spark every child’s imagination and fit every parent’s budget.
“It’s not where you go; it’s how you get there,” says Janus Adams. It’s a concept Adams knows well as the mother of twins and founder of BackPax. Since 1986, this mother – now grandmother – has been crisscrossing the country researching and recording stories to set our children’s sights soaring. That’s why her company is releasing its newly digitized and enhanced on-location based CD series in time for summer. From a love of adventure – key to every child’s growth – comes a sense of exploration as a state of mind where children:
- Dare to dream
- Learn the art of risk-taking
- Gain self-confidence
- Enjoy discovery and self-discovery.
To spark adventurous young minds; to nurture the child who’s going places…whatever a family’s destination, parents should ready-up these 5 Travel Gear Essentials:
- ‘Get Lost’ Guide to Adventure
- Two-Hour Vacation Planner
- Parent’s Anything-But-Bored Survival Kit
- Legacy Ticket
- Wild Idea Multi-directional Compass
And, just in time for Summer Travel, Summer Fun BackPax is rolling out its campaign featuring these three award-winning book and non-readalong CD titles:
About BackPax: Adventures in Learning
BackPax children’s books, audios, and games engage children in history and culture via travel and adventure. Founded in 1986, BackPax Adventures in Learning for the child who’s going places™ . . . have been name among the “Best of the Best.” by the American Library Association. Each title is a 24-page full-color book and 30-minute non-readalong adventure produced on location for children ages 8–12. Suggested retail: $14.95.
Underground Railroad: Escape to Freedom
In time for Juneteenth – June 19th, the traditional African American “freedom day” – it’s a tale of death-defying courage against the odds; best of all it’s true. Hop aboard the freedom train from Colonial Williamsburg through Harpers Ferry (site of John Brown’s historic raid), to Farmington, Connecticut (refuge to the Amistad mutineers), up to “Heaven’s Door,” the Canadian border, with a side-track visit with the grandniece of the greatest “conductor” of them all, Harriet Tubman.
Traveling Mark Twain’s America
In this centennial year of his death, this unique portrait of the Twain’s life and times was inspired by the author’s own words. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness…. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” A cross-country audiojourney from his Hannibal hometown to Hartford, Connecticut with side-trips to California and Nevada.
Trailblazing Yellowstone
Perfect for Summer Travel, Summer Fun: celebrate our national parks. There’s a spectacular show taking place in the northwestern section of Wyoming. Produced by Earth, directed by Nature, designed by Time, it is called Yellowstone, the world’s first National Park. Explore Nature’s wonders with this earthly show of supernatural power and beauty; legends of the indigenous Absaroka people, tales of a modern-day Mountain Man and Stella, the guitar that saved his life. Recorded on location in Yellowstone National Park and Montana. ## For media interviews, contact Pauline Barfield by phone: (212) 736-0404 or email: pb736@aol.com. For more information, visit: www.JanusAdams.com JA commentaries on NPR June 8, 2008 :
BackPax Trailblazer’s Club
Janus launches children’s book and adventure club, inspiring young minds to soar. Starts July 5, 2008!