civics – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog Mon, 29 Oct 2018 23:16:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://i0.wp.com/gregladen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Greg_Ladens_Blog_Favicon_black_GLb.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 civics – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog 32 32 77525483 Voting With A Porpoise https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/29/voting-with-a-porpoise/ https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/29/voting-with-a-porpoise/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2018 23:16:01 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30714 Continue reading Voting With A Porpoise →]]> A new book to help educate our small fry on the importance and meaning of voting: Voting With a Porpoise by Russell Glass, Sean Callahan and Daniel Howarth (illustrator).

It is a whale of a book:

A pod of dolphins (and their porpoise friend, Petey) is in trouble. Their reef no longer provides the food they need to survive. The pod can’t figure out what to do until Petey suggests they hold an election to decide.

2018 Parent and Teacher Choice Award winner, Voting With a Porpoise is a fun, timeless, and beautifully illustrated story that teaches children how elections and voting have the power to solve hard problems.

The authors created this book to help change the culture around elections and voting. To that end, 100 percent of the profits for Voting With a Porpoise will be donated to 501(c)(3) non-partisan voting-related causes focused on getting more people of all backgrounds to the polls, such as Rock the Vote, Vote.org, TurboVote, and others.

This book is the next best thing to lowering the voting age to 16! Or lower!

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