March's Local Business of the Month: The Golden Isles StoryMaker

Meet, Becky Burroughs, also known as the Golden Isles StoryMaker! She is a Brand Partner with PaperPie - Usborne Books & More rebranded - and they continue to offer the BEST books, educational toys, STEAM kits, and learning manipulatives for children of all ages, from birth to TEENS (yep, even teens!).

About PaperPie

They create products and opportunities that enrich, inspire, and nourish the mind, heart, and imagination, transforming lives - one story, one book, one family, one child at a time. PaperPie is the social-selling division of Educational Development Corporation (EDC) that connects directly to the customer.

EDC began as a publishing company specializing in books for children. EDC is the owner and exclusive publisher of Kane Miller Books; Learning Wrap-Ups, maker of educational manipulatives; and SmartLabToys, maker of STEAM based toys and games. EDC is also the exclusive United States direct sales distributor of Usborne Publishing Limited children’s books. Through PaperPie, products are sold nationwide through independent Brand Partners who share books and educational materials with customers in various ways, including events, on social media, at book fairs, in schools and public libraries, and more.

Why I Chose To Join PaperPie?

"Growing up, my dad traveled a lot, and we hardly saw him from the time I was about 7 years old until I was 14, when my parents got divorced and he moved away. But, before he started traveling all the time, it was his job to read me my bedtime story every night, and we bonded a lot during those times. My brother was born right before my dad started traveling for work, so they never had a chance to create that bond, and to this day my dad and I are closer to each other than he and my brother are. I firmly believe it was those bedtime reading sessions that laid the foundation for our relationship today, and that was also how I learned to read.

Books do so much more than entertain and even educate - reading aloud together can strengthen bonds and provide a safe space to talk about life lessons. I joined PaperPie so that I could help educate families on the importance of reading

together and bonding through books, while also helping those in need earn free and discounted books. Reading really does set children up for success as adults, and I want to pour into the children of today so that they become effective and capable leaders for the future. And PaperPie does everything it can to help StoryMakers like me achieve these goals. Our mission is to gather for good around literacy and learning, because we believe that every child has a story worth sharing and that literacy can give them the tools to write their own futures.

Beyond that, I donate my income from PaperPie to my church's faith promise fund, which we use to support missionaries all around the globe. The Lord has blessed our family so that my husband's income fully supports us so that we can survive and save, so I use my additional income to serve others and further Christ's kingdom.

I’d love to have you join my VIP club so that I can serve YOU by sharing literacy tips, educational resources, mom hacks, and more with you! Please visit my website, Bonding through Books, to subscribe for these exclusive resources so that I can help you build literacy for a lifetime."

Connect Today

Personal website: Bonding through Books https://www.bondingthroughbooks.com/

PaperPie website: https://paperpie.com/brandpartner/R12460/

Contact info: (cell) 404-861-5370