Subject: San Diego Union Tribune
From: "Merilee:::Kern Communications" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:52:45 -0700

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/bell/20080325-9999-1m25bell.html

March 25, 2008

A child's inspiration . . . 
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. 

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. 

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

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.