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The Adventures of Lily Huckleberry: travel books for kids

Created by This Little Street

The first book of a travel series for little wanderers - full of bravery, whimsy, laughter, and cultural discovery.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

WE (YOU!) DID IT!
almost 6 years ago – Sat, May 12, 2018 at 08:45:43 PM

Time to pop that rainbow confetti, friends! Jackie and I just did 437 cartwheels in our living room because it's OFFICIAL! Our kickstarter funded!! wooooohzaa! We raise 154% of our initial goal with the help of all you 928 lovely people! 

We CANNOT wait to get the book out to you because we just KNOW you and your little ones are going to fall in love with our Lily :) Time for us to roll up our sleeves and get this baby of a book printed!

Before we let you go throw your own confetti in your living room, three big announcements: 

- We'll be sending our the Kickstarter survey to get your addresses etc within the next couple of week! Watch for this email as it's the ONLY WAY that we can get the information we need to send you your rewards once the books are published and ready to ship

- The winner of the Hand-Painted Mural challenge is......drum roll....Jonathan Holmes, who helped us get 14 more pledges during the last week of the campaign! We'll be in touch and can't wait to come paint a brand new custom mural for you this fall! 

- Know friends who miss the Lily Huckleberry boat? We put the book up for pre-order in the shop here :) So you can keep spreading the word all you want!

And for the MANY of you who have been asking for Viking beard updates...we'll be posting regular updates This Little Street's Instagram stories here so make sure to follow along! And you can follow our little Lily herself here ;)

Again. Thank you. From the bottom of our hearts. 

Xo, 

Audrey, Jackie & Lily

Last Dance, Last Chance!
almost 6 years ago – Fri, May 11, 2018 at 01:44:51 PM

Hello friends! 

Coming to you live from Command Central, we are T-minus 20 hours and 27 minutes away from completing our Kickstarter! That's right, people - 20 hours. (Can you tell I always wanted to run a PBS telethon? Big dreams over here :) 

Anyway, that means you have 20 hours to spread the word and snatch up our Kickstarter Only Rewards! There are still packages left to have your child's name printed in our book! (Check out the rewards at the $100 level!) Get 'em while they're hot! 

Final Countdown of The Great Mural Challenge: 

For those of you doing the mural challenge, you may want to consider having your children make adorable, compelling videos like backer Jonathan Holmes: 

I think we may need to hire these two as PR Interns once the campaign ends! 

Notes from Little Readers: 

We got fan mail!! Check out this adorable note. 

Sarah's child, Megan, was part of our test audience, but she refused to finish the rest of the story until she could hold the book in her hands. How's that for some passion? Lily Huckleberry would be proud! 

This note made us so excited to interact with our readers and dream about Lily's next adventures! 

Thank you! Thank YOU! THANK YOU! 

We hope you get sick of us saying thank you, because we can't say it enough. All 903 of you have made this an incredibly fun month, so thanks again for believing in us and backing this project. 

What was just a dream 29 days ago is now a reality.....

....in 20 hours and 26 or 22 minutes, depending on how fast you read. 

We love you, dear backers! 

Jackie + Audrey 

Woohooo 35K! Your new prize is unlocked!!!!
almost 6 years ago – Tue, May 08, 2018 at 03:02:45 PM

You get your first stretch goal prize!  We just reached $35K in funding....which means that ALL of you who pledged to a rewards with a book will get the "Lily in Scandinavia patch" extra! Back story to this patch: Upon completing each of her adventures in different countries, Lily will get a patch (that she'll gradually add to her yellow backpack). This patch is the very first patch she gets - and your kids will feel like they completed the adventure with her :)

Can we get to 1,000 backers?! We like challenges (obviously, hellloooo Viking beard challenge!) and we'd love to see if we can get to 1,000 backers by the end of the campaign! We're at 837 now - can you help us get to 1,000? Just email 3-4 of your friends and tell them about our book! :)

Only 4 days left to get the rewards!  While the book will still be available for pre-order once the campaign is over - it will not come with all the extra fun stuff (print, patches etc) that you get when supporting us through Kickstarters! Last chance to get a drawing of your child in the book or the artist special etc...

Thanks for all the love - we've said it so many times, but we are truly blown away by all your support!

xo

Audrey and Jackie

WIN A CUSTOM HAND-PAINTED MURAL!!!!
almost 6 years ago – Thu, May 03, 2018 at 12:04:25 PM

In honor of the last week, we want to give away our most special prize: A Custom Hand-Painted Mural Designed by Audrey! Something to make your child or people in your community smile every day of the week :) 

Here’s the scoop:

The prize: One winner will get to work with Audrey to design a custom mural for your house...or school or community! (wall up to 14-feet wide). We will buy the paint and travel to you to paint the mural (US only) in Fall 2018.

How can you win? Refer your friends to pledge to our campaign between now and the end of our Kickstarter (Saturday, May 12 - 9 am PST)! The winner will be the person with the most referred pledges!

How to enter the challenge: Email Audrey - [email protected] to get your personal referral link - put I’M GOING TO WIN THE MURAL in the subject line :) Audrey will send you a unique link to the campaign that you can share with friends, family, your community. Every pledge that comes through your link will be tallied up automatically, so all you'll have to do is share that link! :)

Good luck, everyone! We cannot wait to work on a fun mural with you! And thank for the on-going support for this project. 

xo, 

Audrey & Jackie

NEW EXCLUSIVE REWARDS ADDED!!! AND ONE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!
almost 6 years ago – Thu, May 03, 2018 at 12:11:03 AM

We're on our way to reaching our first stretch goal!!! Woohooooo! Only $3,500 to go until we unlock the first extra reward to all our backers - a collectible "Lily in Scandinavia" patch (the exact same patch that Lily gets at the end of her first adventures so your kids feel like they completed the adventure with her!!!) 

Share share share with everyone you know!

Mockup of the Scandinavia patch
Mockup of the Scandinavia patch

Also, we've got 2 BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR YOU!!!!! 

First one is, we just added some FUN  EXCLUSIVE REWARDS! 

1) $100 - "GET YOUR KID'S NAME IN THE BOOK" reward! (Kickstarter exclusive!) Have your child/grandchild/nephew/niece/friend's name printed in the book among the "Amazing little wanderers of the Worldwide Adventure Society!" (one line of text per backer) + of a signed version of the book + the print & Adventure Society patch.

 Your kid will love seeing their name printed in our book!!! So up your pledge & tell your friends about this!

PS: EVERY BACKER who has already pledged/pledges a $100 dollar + on ANY of our reward packages will also get to have their kid's name in the book :) So no need to switch your pledge if you are already at that level, we've got you covered ;)

2) Extra "DRAWING OF YOUR CHILD IN  THE BOOK!" rewards unlocked!!! This reward has been so popular, and we got so many emails asking us to add a few more....we decided to go ahead and open up just 3 NEW SPOTS! Act quickly before they are all gone! :) 

Second big announcement is....we decided to GIVE AWAY A CUSTOM MURAL designed and hand-painted by yours truly for your home or your kid's school or wherever you wish :) Get excited, friends!!!!! We'll be announcing how you can our biggest prize yet tomorrow, Thursday May 3rd, at 10am PST on social media!

Thanks for the ongoing support! What an amazing journey this project has been so far, and it's all thanks to you!

xo, 

Audrey & Jackie

PS: Lily has her own instagram account, did you see? Sweet girls needs more friends :)