Rachel’s book, SAVING CINDERELLA: FAIRY TALES & CHILDREN IN THE 21ST CENTURY has been named Finalist in the 2015 International Book Awards ! Winner’s List

Finalist, USA Best Books 2014

SAVING CINDERELLA: FAIRY TALES & CHILDREN IN THE 21ST CENTURY, by Rachel Hope Crossman has been named a Finalist in the 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, in the Education/Academic category.  View awards here: Rachel is a winner!

Finalist, USA Best Books 2014

Session One: June 29-July 3 2015 $150 1 week

Monday-Friday Morning Session 9:00-12:00 ages 5 through 7

Monday-Friday Afternoon Session 2:00-5:00 ages 8 through eleven

Berkeley Bridge Montessori Plus offers a fun program that covers Common Core standards in writing and reading while allowing time for creative writing, comics illustrating and mini-graphic novels. Writing for research, writing personal letters, writing for fun. Small group size of six children.

Contact: Rachel Hope Crossman at rachel.crossman@gmail.com or 510-847-5911

Do you know this vocabulary? Sphere, pyramid, ovoid, cube, rectangular prism, triangular prism, cylinder.

Find Rachel on the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing Look Up a Teacher page,

It has been so much fun to see some of my 2nd grader writer friends make progress! I have watched them struggle to write a sentence, then stretch to make it a paragraph! Now they are writing whole pages, and filling the back side as well. Some are writing “Small Moments”, a la Lucy McCormick Calkins. Some are writing fiction! Now I am ready to begin my own Children’s Writing Workshop, Berkeley Bridge Montessori Plus, blending Common Core Standards with Montessori philosophy!

Opening Date: Tuesday, April 14th, 2015 4:00-5:30 p.m. for Grades K through 2nd/ Thursday April 16th 4-5:30 p.m. 3-5th grades

rachel.crossman@gmail.com for more information.

If Cinderella came to my house, these are some shoes she could choose.

Wow! My blog, 365 Cinderellas, has received 100,952 hits! Thank you to viewers in Switzerland, Iraq, England, Spain, Canada, and the USA.

Thank you to all of my readers who have visited my blog, 365 Cinderellas, 99,988 times! Visit it to find a searchable database of Cinderella stories from around the world inkling Iraq, India, Kenya, Canada, and many, many other countries. 

365 Cinderellas, Rachel’s searchable database of Cinderella stories from around the world, has received 99,787 views as of November 23, 2014!

What’s good for the GOOSE is good for the GANDER!

Baba Yaga is a Russian witch who sometimes eats children.

original artwork by Chloe Eloise Crossman

Buy it now at University Press Books 2430 Bancroft Way, Berkeley CA 94704 510-548-0585

https://www.facebook.com/pages/University-Press-Books/42813045259?sk=info&tab=overview

SAVING CINDERELLA: FAIRY TALES AND CHILDREN IN THE 21ST CENTURY has been named one of the Best of the Best in Children’s Literature Spring/Summer 2014 by renowned children’s educator and author Nancy Polette. View Nancy’s complete list of recommendations at:

http://nancypolette.com/bestbooks/nonfiction_SpringSummer2014.asp

Rachel Hope Crossman
at Live Oak Park, Berkeley CA