Creating Two Tall Tales: An illustrated, popup storybook
A project in Langley, WA by Ann Medlock000days
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TWO TALL TALES will be a storybook (with art, pop-ups and audio) about how giraffes got their long necks—by being caring and brave.
Backers: 279
Average Pledge Per Backer: $149
Funded: $41,504 of $68,080
Dates: May 6th -> Jun 5th (31 days)
Project By: Ann Medlock
Backers: 279
Average Pledge Per Backer: $149
Funded: $41,504 of $68,080
Dates: May 6th -> Jun 5th (31 days)
Project By: Ann Medlock
$41,504
current pledge level
Last Updated: June 5 @ 21:30 -0400 GMT
60%
of goal
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Latest News
Big gratitude and a small gift for you 
June 5th - via: kickstarter.com
Well, it’s been an amazing experience. It started with putting the Two Tall Tales proposal together with our fabulous artist, our extraordinary popup engineer and our super tech team. I loved the plan SO much, I was sure we’d go past the cost of... (Read More)
Down to the wire
June 4th - via: kickstarter.com
Less than 24 hours to go in our Kickstarter campaign. If you love being the one to ride over the crest of the ridge at the turning point of the story, now’s your moment. Pledge for the first time or up-level a pledge you've already made. But do it... (Read More)
Great Graphic of Where We Are
June 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks to Friend/Backer Christine Nyburg for making us a giraffe "thermometer." Thanks too to all the Backers who made that line rise so high. Now let's make the pledge line reach his/her horns by 6:11 PM Pacific Time on June 5! Two Tall Tales will... (Read More)
Obsessing in the Home Stretch
June 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
I'm told that it's possible to run a Kickstarter campaign without thinking about it, working on it, checking on it obsessively. I don't seem to be one of those people. As we race into the last hours of this month-long campaign, I'm thinking... (Read More)
One more thing...
May 31st - via: kickstarter.com
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Help-Giraffe-Heroes-Ann-M-by-Joan-Brunwasser-130529-990.html That's a link to an interview about Two Tall Tales that includes an explanation of Kickstarter, in case you have potential pledgers in your life who don't... (Read More)
Heading for the Goal Line
May 29th - via: kickstarter.com
Friends who have done Kickstarter campaigns tell me that I'm not being weird, checking the "Backer report" every half hour. Laughing at myself, nevertheless. I'll try to not look again until morning. What I see now is 51% of our goal pledged by 239... (Read More)
Great Ideas from Our Backers
May 27th - via: kickstarter.com
One backer plans to send 20 copies of Two Tall Tales to her women contacts in refugee camps, for their children. She’ll have translations of the words included in each copy. (The popups will need no translations—they speak the universal language... (Read More)
Feeling good about you
May 24th - via: kickstarter.com
This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read. (Read More)
New Article about Two Tall Tales
May 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
A great article was just published here on our home island, in the rainy Pacific North West. Do send the url to your friends: http://bit.ly/185r2LS Our current donors are our best chance of making the goal. Please triple "clone" yourself--bring... (Read More)
Breakthrough Marketing Advice
May 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
A great marketing guy just spent an hour coaching me and mainly said two things-- 1--Urge, cajole, nudge, push all your donors to bring in three more pledgers, and 2--find new backers on Pinterest, which he thinks is a demographic that would GET... (Read More)
Two Tall Tales Just Got a Great Endorsement
May 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
Exchange Magazine, the leading trade publication for early childhood professionals, would like to offer Two Tall Tales to its 100,000 online and in-print subscribers. Exchange's endorsement is highly valued and we're honored to have it. Now we just... (Read More)
A Mash-up--Using tech of the 21st century & the 14th
May 19th - via: kickstarter.com
We’re combining the technologies of the 21st century and the 14th to create something wondrous for your kids and ours. Combining QR scanners with the ancient art of handmade popup paper, Two Tall Tales will be a storybook for our times, and for... (Read More)
New coverage of Two Tall Tales
May 14th - via: kickstarter.com
This week there's both national and local coverage for our Kickstarter campaign--Here's the story from the mighty South Whidbey Record. Don't wait any longer to get in on this--it's gonna take a village to raise this book--and you're in that village.... (Read More)
Two Tall Tales has a great new Reward
May 14th - via: kickstarter.com
We've got a new Reward--the actors who did the voices of Stan Tall and Bea Tall have offered to record messages to specific children designated by our Backers! The child will scan a chip on the book's cover to hear something like this:"Hi, Allyson.... (Read More)
The nation's "cultural concierge" recommends Two Tall Tales
May 13th - via: kickstarter.com
headbutler.com, a terrific national online "cultural concierge," just sent this out: Giraffes for kids: Friend of the site Ann Medlock is the force behind The Giraffe Heroes Project, which identifies and honors people who stand up for what they... (Read More)
Stan & Bea report that they're off and running!
May 7th - via: kickstarter.com
We've completed one day of the 30-day campaign to create Two Tall Tales and we're got pledges for 8% of our goal! Wild, enthusiastic thanks to all the first-day pledgers! With backers like you, Two Tall Tales should make it to the goal for sure. We... (Read More)
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