Richard Sobol

"Exposing children to a diverse range of literary and informational texts, the Core Concepts program helps develop important literacy and cognitive skills necessary to meet many of the Common Core State Standards. Gold Light and Gold Ray are the only known pair of elephant twins in the world! Photojournalist Richard Sobol has masterfully captured the twins' playfulness, as he shows the twins feeding, bathing, napping, and learning with their trainer...

After witnessing the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York City, "J.J. Keki, a Ugandan musician and coffee farmer ... was determined to find a way for people who held different religious beliefs to work together. He saw that the neighborhood children [in his village], from Jewish, Muslim, and Christian families, played with one another without a care about religion. Why not enlist their parents, all coffee farmers like himself, in a cooperative venture...