Ziggity Zoom News

Virginia Beach, VA – ZiggityZoom.com was named an Honors Award winner in the 2009 National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Children’s Products competition. Full results will be announced Nov. 1, 2009, in more than 40 regional parenting magazines across the country and online at Parenthood.com. This distinguished award recognizes ZiggityZoom.com as a standout among Websites available for children today. 

Now entering its 20^th year, NAPPA is a well-known name in the world of children’s learning and entertainment. Parents, relatives and those who work with children rely on NAPPA’s recommendation of high-quality toys and products that provide “smart fun,” good design, and grow with children’s ever-expanding interests and skills. 

“NAPPA-winning products meet the most stringent criteria and are judged by nationally recognized industry experts, educators, reviewers and advocates in their fields,” says NAPPA Manager Barbara Smith Decker. “NAPPA has set the industry standard of excellence for two decades and is a much sought-after award. When parents see the NAPPA Gold or Honors seal on winning products, they’re assured of a topnotch fun and learning experience for their children.” 

ZiggityZoom Advisory Board Includes More than 30 Specialists in Education, Health, Nutrition,

Child Development, Parenting, Literacy, Language and Safety

Virginia Beach, VA – The ZiggityZoom.com Advisory Board was announced today by Kristin Fitch, CEO, Ziggity Zoom LLC.  Created to provide developmental direction and consultation regarding creative, educational and literary content, childhood health and parent education, the board is composed of experts from around the country that share a commitment to children’s development and well-being.  The Advisory Board member list is attached to this release.

“This group of experts share our commitment and passion for helping children excel in areas of creativity, literacy and education, well being and regardless of their economic status,” said Fitch.  “Their contribution and feedback will be invaluable in helping ZiggityZoom.com achieve an even greater positive effect on families with young children.”  To be instituted in the next few months is a new area in the parenting section, What Parents Need to Know Now, where member experts will contribute updated posts in their given specialties.

Recently, ZiggityZoom presented a fun day at Kangaroo Jac's in Chesapeake, Virginia with an Art Bounce and Kids Art Contest.  All kids who participated took part in a Sock Puppet workshop and created a fun puppet to take home.

Some of the kids took advantage of the discount for Kangaroo Jac's admission by bringing a piece of their artwork for ZiggityZoom's Art Contest.  Three lucky winners will receive "Bounce passes" to Kangaroo Jac's for future fun.

Featured here are our Art winners, who had to draw or paint a Princess, Pirate, Creature or Kangaroo.  Congratulations to our winners!  We think they did a great job.

Winners: Ainsley, age 4    "Princess"

              Taylor, age 5     "Creatures"

               Kali, age 10     "Kangaroo Jac's Princess"

Virginia Beach -  In conjunction with the “Be Creative at Your Library” summer reading program that is held nationwide,  ZiggityZoom.com will participate this July at the Virginia Beach Central Library.

Centered around creative activites, and based in Virginia Beach themselves, ZiggityZoom.com is a website that is devoted to the 3-8 age group, their parents and teachers.  On July 9,  editors of Ziggity Zoom will present two sessions, held morning and afternoon,  interweaving the creativity found in books with the fun of creating original puppets.  The puppets will revolve around characters from the books read to the children that day.  Kids will have the fun of creating their own puppet during the session and learn the value of finding creativity right in their own library.

Summer reading programs are a great way to provide children opportunities to read books and listen to stories.  Educators realize that these summer programs help little kids get ready to read and big kids raise their reading scores. Public libraries all over the country now participate in the Reading program, which has a new theme every year.  "Be Creative at Your Library" is a wonderful free program that promotes parent/child involvement.

Virginia Beach, VA – A new virtual Playworld for very young children has just been launched on ZiggityZoom.com announced Ziggity Zoom LLC president, Kristin Fitch, this week.  

Knight & Princess Land is the initial phase of a more involved Playworld that will feature other connecting worlds with Mermaids, Pirates, Princessland and more.  Ziggity Zoom’s playworld is designed for use by children three and up.  It is an introduction to the world of virtual play and the children can choose their character, move them around and make magical things happen in the Playworld. 

In Knight & Princess Land, children can be either the Knight or the Princess.  Music plays in the background and children can “magically” make the Green Dragon get larger or smaller with a flick of their Magic wand or sword.  They can enter the Castle and find the tunnel behind a secret bookcase to get to the next castle.  Great fun for little kids.

NEWS
For Immediate Release
November 4, 2008 

ALSC announces exceptional Web sites for children(Chicago) The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, has added Web sites this fall to Great Web Sites for Kids (www.ala.org/greatsites), its online resource containing hundreds of links to commendable Web sites for children.Great Web Sites for Kids (GWS) features links to valuable Web sites of interest to children, organized by subject headings such as animals; literature and languages; mathematics and computers; the arts; and history and biography. There is also a special section with sites of interest to parents, caregivers and teachers, plus an area devoted to sites in Spanish. The ALSC Great Web Sites for Kids Committee maintains and updates the site.“Not all Web sites for kids are created equal,” said Karen Lemmons, co-chair of the committee and a library media specialist at Howe Elementary School in Detroit. “To make the cut and appear on the Great Web sites for Kids, a site must demonstrate commendable qualityand reflect and encourage young people’s interests in exemplary ways. Sites must stand up to an evaluation and voting process by the committee before being deemed ‘great’ and added to the GWS page.”