Announcing the Little Passports Affiliate Program

Little Passports invites you to join the adventure!

Earn a commission through our affiliate program by selling our award-winning subscription for kids. Little Passports has been featured in Real Simple, Parents Magazine, on The Talk and is used by celebrity moms. We are a Parents’ Choice Award Winner and iParenting Media Award Winner. Our product is a monthly subscription service for children. Our two globetrotting characters, Sam and Sofia, travel to a new country each month on their GPS-enabled scooter. Each month, children race to the mailbox to receive their package full of goodies including a letter from Sam and Sofia, an activity sheet, a country-specific souvenir/toy, a photo, stickers, and access to online games. We offer a $10 commission for every order you generate. For more information about The Little Passports Affiliate Program, please contact us at support(at)littlepassports(dot)com.

Little Passports has teamed up with ShareASale to offer a simple affiliate signup process, so that you can begin earning commission payments from your website as soon as possible. Click here to sign up and spread the word to your friends and fellow bloggers/webmasters!

A Cinco de Mayo Newsletter!

This week, Little Passports takes you on a tour of the adventures awaiting you in your very own neighborhood. Click here to read our latest newsletter, titled “Passport to Your Neighborhood”! And, of course, we can’t forget about Cinco de Mayo! In celebration of the holiday, we’ve provided you with a simple, authentic guacamole recipe straight from the kitchen of Mamasita “Lia Tortilla.” We know you’ll love it! Have a lovely day and pass the newsletter on to any friends who might like it.

Double the Newsletters, Double the Fun

Since our last post, Little Passports has introduced not one, but TWO fresh newsletters to the internet masses! Our first newsletter explores Fools’ Day traditions throughout the world, highlighting lighthearted shenanigans from countries like Italy, France, and Scotland. Newsletter #2 celebrates the Spring season with clever activity ideas and fun facts about festivals in India and Spain. Read at your leisure and make sure to subscribe if you haven’t already!

New Little Passports Newsletter: Age in Korea

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The latest Little Passports newsletter is now available! The newsletter includes activities for your kids and fun facts about Korean culture. Click here to learn all about age reckoning in Korea and be sure to forward it on to all of your friends.

Have comments or questions? Let us know what you’re thinking on our Facebook page. We’d love to hear from you!

Enter Our Facebook Holiday Contest!

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All of us at Little Passports love products, companies, and ideas that promote global citizenship in kids. That’s why we’re so excited to tell you about our friends at Tea Collection, a globally-inspired clothing line for children.

With the holiday season reaching its peak, Sam and Sofia want to spread the Christmas cheer. So, this week we’re joining forces with our fashion gurus at Tea Collection and hosting a giveaway! “Like” us on Facebook and “Follow” us on Twitter to receive updates about our online contest starting on Wednesday, the 15th. The contest is simple and the prize is a $100 gift card to Tea! You won’t want to miss this one, so be sure to find us on Facebook and be the first to learn the contest details.

We love Tea because the artists design distinctive apparel influenced by beauty from around the world. From the art of traditional Korean patchwork to the graphic boldness of Brazilian street graffiti, Tea designers find motivation during their travels, interpreting their discoveries into unique, beautiful clothing for children and women.

Tea offers a full collection of clothing for children (ages 0-12) that is made to love, and made to last. Tea also recently introduced their first assortment of unique styles for women. Their boy’s clothing and girl’s clothing collections are available at specialty and department stores (including Nordstrom, Bloomingdales, and Saks Fifth Avenue) and their latest globally-inspired collection is available online at teacollection.com.

Be sure to participate in our $100 Tea Collection giveaway by joining us on Facebook, and check back here in the coming months. We’re scheming up some fun plans for the Little Passports blog.

Happy Holidays! We’ll see you on Facebook!

–The Little Passports Team

Little Passports Wins Parents’ Choice Award

Hi,

We’re really happy that we just won the Parents’ Choice Recommended Award!

Parents’ Choice gave us the award based on the feedback they received from the independent parties, including parents, educators, and caregivers, who tested our product.

Here’s a short description taken from the Parents’ Choice site on what they look for in products they award –

The Parents’ Choice Awards committees look for products that entertain and teach with flair, stimulate imagination and inspire creativity. Judges are interested in how a product helps a child grow: socially, intellectually, emotionally, ethically, physically. Products must be free of bias. Above all, products must not extol violence.

We’re so appreciative of the positive feedback we continue to get. Please help us continue to tell your friends and family about Little Passports! Thanks!

Little Passports Included in ‘Back to School Celebrity Kids Gift Bag 2009′

Hi,

We’re excited to be included in the Jewels and Pinstripes Back to School Celebrity Kids Gift Bags for 2009! Jewels and Pinstripes is one of the nation’s premier gift bag companies dedicated to raising money for charitable causes.

This year, Jewels and Pinstripes will host a special charity auction of a Back To School Gift Bag on eBay to benefit the Care To Learn Foundation, a children’s charity founded by Brad Pitt’s brother, Doug Pitt, which provides emergency needs for K through 6th grade children. The auction worth over $1,300, will launch on September 9th with 100% of proceeds benefiting the Care To Learn Foundation.

We’re thrilled that we can support the Care to Learn Foundation as we continue to get the word out about Little Passports and the benefits of fostering global citizenship at an early age.

Check out everything that’s included in the gift bags! Also, here’s the official press release announcing the bags and charity.

We’ll share feedback from participating in this event with you as it comes in!

Little Passports Team

Little Passports Wins iParenting Award for 2009 Outstanding Products

Hi,

Checkout the iParenting list of winners for the Toys and Games category and view the Little Passports profile.

We find ourselves in good company with well-established brands such as Fisher-Price, Wild Planet, LEGO, and Radio Flyer!

iParenting awards are based on reviews by a panel of independent reviewers.  Here are some of the comments the reviewers had to say about Little Passports:

“My daughter was completely uninterested in anything geography-related until Little Passports came into our home. She’d had globe toys, and we’d tried to show her things on maps… even the Magic Treehouse series of books didn’t pique her interest. From the first letter from “Sam” and the unfolding of the beautiful wall map included in the Little Passports’ first package, she was hooked. She loved running over to the map to find all the locations talked about in the letters. We talked about North-South-East-West and she figured out where all these places were in relation to where we live. It was magical to see the spark of interest ignite the fire of learning. She even started remembering things we had discussed about other places and wanted me to show her where they were on the map and explain some of those old stories again for her now-engaged mind.   We especially enjoyed the letters from Sam. They were written in such a personal style, my child truly felt like they were written for her. I appreciated the easy-to-read, uncluttered look of all the materials, (including the website,) and the sprinkling of pictures throughout the letters.

I love the idea of a packet coming in the mail once a month from “Sam and Sofia.” It’s exciting to get something in the mail, but even more so when it’s from someone you know who wants to share their travel adventures with you. A magazine with page after page of glossy pictures cannot do that. The cost of genuine travel is prohibitive. The way Little Passports has captured the excitement of travel is inspiring.”
- iParenting Media Awards’ Reviewer
 
“The positive characteristics of this product include the cute story and the appealing objects from each country. We also liked that it is educational and multicultural. The concept of sending these letters, postcards, stickers, toys and games in the mail monthly is great … and following that up with a boarding pass that allows you to go online and play more games and track the progress of the characters’ travels is even better. The passport is a great idea too, especially the pages to record parents’ responses of countries they would like to visit and the pages to put the stamp of each country. We really liked this toy.”
- iParenting Media Awards’ Reviewer

“Wow…Little Passports was a big hit with the children in my daycare. Of course, they all wanted to be the one to carry the suitcase and go on the adventure!  I loved that we could go and learn about another country without leaving our home.  I also liked that we had information that wasn’t just about being a tourist of the country.  It is a great product.”
- iParenting Media Awards’ Reviewer

Thanks for your continued support!

Little Passports Team 

Getting the Word Out

Hi,

It’s been awhile since we last wrote — we’ve been busy getting the word out about Little Passports. 

We’ve been getting great feedback from parent and travel bloggers.  Check out all of our latest reviews!  We were featured in the DailyCandy Kids Edition a couple of weeks ago!

In trying to be entrepreneurial, we also decided to test going to a street festival so we ventured out to the San Anselmo Art and Wine Festival a couple of weekends ago.   Unfortunately for us, our inaugural street festival presence coincided with a heat wave that bought 100 degree weather.   As a result, visitor traffic to the festival was very light.  We were happy though to talk with some parents and grandparents who loved our concept and purchased subscriptions for their own children/grandchildren and as birthday gifts for children of their friends. 

Here’s a photo of our booth at the festival (excuse the poor lighting from a Blackberry phone camera!):

We’re constantly working on spreading the word so please continue to tell your friends and family about us.  We’re also in the midst of reaching out to consumer publications for coverage in their 2009 Holiday Gift Guides.  If you know of anyone at a publication that would be interested in learning more about Little Passports, please email us at: info@littlepassports.com

Thanks!  Talk to you soon!

Little Passports Team

Latest Little Passport Reviews

Hi,

We’re excited by the positive customer feedback coming in!  Check out these two recent reviews on –

• Ciao Bambino — a great site about families traveling together (also got posted on Cookie Magazine’s Going Places Blog)
• Alpha Mom — site started by a New Yorker mom with a 5-year-old

Thanks!

Little Passports Team