Reply-To: "Merilee:::Kern Communications" From: "Merilee:::Kern Communications" To: Subject: San Diego Union Tribune Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:52:45 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; type="multipart/alternative"; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0335_01C88F2F.85C8BFA0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0335_01C88F2F.85C8BFA0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0336_01C88F2F.85C8BFA0" ------=_NextPart_001_0336_01C88F2F.85C8BFA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 =20 http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/bell/20080325-9999-1m25bell.html= March 25, 2008 A child's inspiration . . .=20 Theresa Carter credits her young son with inspiring her to found = AmeriTales Entertainment. Her company publishes fictional = action-adventure children's books based on real American heroes such as = Abraham Lincoln, Amelia Earhart and Thomas Edison.=20 Carter said her entrepreneurial defining moment came in 2005 when her = 5-year-old son greeted his dad home from work one day by "mooning" him.=20 "I knew then that his infatuation with SpongeBob SquarePants, and other = such characters in popular culture, had gone too far," she said.=20 Hence, she left a successful corporate career to parlay her fondness for = American history into products that expose kids to entertaining, but = more positive, role models.=20 ------=_NextPart_001_0336_01C88F2F.85C8BFA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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March 25, 2008
 

A child's inspiration . . . =

Theresa Carter credits her young son with = inspiring her to=20 found AmeriTales Entertainment. Her company publishes fictional = action-adventure=20 children's books based on real American heroes such as Abraham Lincoln, = Amelia=20 Earhart and Thomas Edison.

Carter said her entrepreneurial defining moment = came in 2005=20 when her 5-year-old son greeted his dad home from work one day by = =93mooning=94 him.=20

=93I knew then that his infatuation with SpongeBob = SquarePants, and other such characters in popular culture, had gone too = far,=94=20 she said.

Hence, she left a successful corporate career to = parlay her=20 fondness for American history into products that expose kids to = entertaining,=20 but more positive, role models.

 
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