For her first movie, Joyce Revoir was awarded a 2007 Telly Award for non-broadcast, children’s audience. “Little Garden Stories™” which features “The Little Firefly” and “The Noisy Cricket” is the first read-along DVD and sing-along CD for children ages 2-8 to celebrate learning with stories, music and craft-time.
Since opening her design studio in 1998, she has illustrated more than fourteen children’s books including “Sam’s Rainbow” by Grammy® award-winning recording artist, Sandi Patty, “The Legend of The Christmas Kiss” (Howard Publishing) and “Alpha-kidZ™” by Cindy G. Foust. As former art director for Sparrow Records/EMI-CMG, Revoir created packaging for some of Christian music’s biggest names including Steven Curtis Chapman and Switchfoot. Clients included World Vision, LifeWay, and MOPS International.
After meeting award-winning producer, Mark Burr, best known for his work with Baby Einstein and for co-creating BabyFaith, Revoir began to think about filmmaking. “Then soon after, we moved to Atlanta, and my daughters saw fireflies for the first time. Their wonderful reaction was the inspiration for the stories,” Revoir explains. Designing for a child’s eye with a parent’s perspective, Revoir combined her music and book publishing experience to develop, “Little Garden Stories.” She uses signature bright colors and narrations with original songs co-written by Revoir and Georgia musician Joey Agee. The engaging characters, motion and color quickly capture attention, stimulating imagination of children as they sing and dance along to the lively, thirty-minute video presentation.
In the first story, a firefly dreams of becoming a big star when an angel shares the lesson, “Just shine where you are and let love be your light.” A cricket then teaches the value of harmony by inspiring the garden to sing and work together. A silly sing-along with a ladybug and a craft-time segment with Revoir’s daughters, Gillian and Katie, complete the video.
Upon completion, Revoir shared the movie with Burr and his business partner, Emmy® award-winning producer, Jess Stainbook. The filmmakers coached Revoir and added the release to their company’s catalogue at www.babyfaith.com. For more information visit: littlegardenstories.com. Revoir will be touring schools and libraries with Craft-Time events in the Atlanta area.
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