Award winning author Cathy Travis, who dared to translate the legalistic language of the United States Constitution for 5th graders, is now publishing books for very young children, even prereaders.
Just released, [Life in the Fridge](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016OUM5CU)," is an ebook for the youngest readers offering a lesson against bullying and offering a way to mend fences after bullying.
Kids absorb everything good, bad, right, wrong usually without any of the adults in their lives really realizing it," said Travis. So the game for parents and other adults is getting information and messages to kids in interesting ways, in the ways they see the world, and in a way they will understand it best."
Life in the Fridge" is the story of characters that come to life in a refrigerator as a family (Mama Milk, Soda Pop, Saucy and Musty) when the door to the fridge is closed. At school that day, Musty laughed at a new kid and made him cry. His family lectures him at the dinner table and Musty seeks advice from his Uncle Cheddar in the cheese drawer.
Not inclined to be nice to make up for being mean and laughing at the new kid, Musty nevertheless befriends the new guy, a juice box.
Filled with colorful, beautiful illustrations, Life in the Fridge" entertains, intrigues and teaches an important lesson for young readers hopefully before bullying becomes part of the fabric of daily reality.
The other book Who Lives at the Zoo?" appeals to younger readers with pictures of animals," said Travis. All kids are intrigued by animals, and the pictures in this book are of zoo animals ¦ mothers with their babies. That's the other thing that kids get: mothers and babies. That's their reality."
Whether a child is going to the zoo or just wishes that they could go to the zoo [Who Lives at the Zoo](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016AE3RAY)?" is ideal for prereaders.
There is a voracious appetite for children's ebooks these days," Travis said. Kids that read become adults who think, who are curious about the world around them. It makes them smarter and makes them more productive citizens."
Coming next, Travis will release a Christmas Nativity story in time for the 2015 Christmas season.
Travis' first kids book (in 2006) Constitution Translated for Kids" is the winner of the 2011 Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award for Education (Government and Politics), the Mom's Choice Award" (juvenile non-fiction, 2010) and a Best Books Award" (2009).
Cathy Travis is from Jonesboro, Arkansas, and spent 25 years as a top staffer on Capitol Hill, writing speeches and working with policy makers and reporters each day, telling the story of what Congress was doing. She left Congress in 2008 to write books full time.
