Digital publishing platforms allow authors and illustrators to explore contemporary issues as they are unfolding. Sometimes events happen that are so moving, so important to an individual that they feel the need to create work around it right away. Events that are horrific, like the bush fires that swept Australia this season. Events that are culturally significant, like the election of President Obama. Events that are joyous, like a new member to the family. These are events that unfold in real time.

Sharing Books offers a place for people to take these real-time events, the living situations of humanity, and put them in a format for children to read. Our book creators can tackle some of the most difficult subject matter in ways that help children understand what has happened, and is HAPPENING, around them.

A great example of this is the Poster Poem, "Survivors" by Jennifer Poulter and Arti Chauhan, which tackles the aftermath of something like the bush fires in Australia. A simple illustration and poem that talks of the mixed emotions that grip survivors, whether they are adult or child.

People live in real time, not the years lag time found in traditional children's publishing. Parents can find they need material to deal with issues in the now, not two, three, or ten years after an event when their children are fully grown. Digital publishing offers a space where authors, illustrators, and content consumers can meet to produce, consume, and share creative works centered on our real-time lives. Content can be published in days instead of years, hours instead of days. What a powerful thing it can be, that space where speed meets relevance.

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