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ANDROMEDA, from GREECE to ETHIOPIA and back again

Ellenore Angelidis — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:57:42 +0000

Guest Post by Eleni Athanasopoulou It was late summer 2021 when I watched a video of a young girl (Leyla) reading aloud from a bilingual book about Ethiopia. An idea immediately sparked in my mind: what if we created a paired Ethio-Greek book from the #ReadySetGo book series? It was late summer 2021 when I watched a video of a young girl (Leyla) reading aloud from a bilingual book about…

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Bilingual Children’s Books delight Ethiopian and Greek kids in Greece

Ellenore Angelidis — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 05:37:35 +0000

We have a wonderful collaboration with Pelargos that helps bring Greek and Amharic versions of some our favorite books to kids in Greece. Below is a translation, thank you Michael Angelidis, from a recent article in Greece about this initiative. For those that read Greek, here is the original Did you know that Andromeda, the well-known princess from Greek Mythology – who is also a…

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Building on Mike Carr’s Legacy – A Role Model for Inclusion and Equity

Ellenore Angelidis — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 01:31:37 +0000

I am still in denial that my dear friend has left this existence. I log on to Facebook expecting a funny, insightful, thought-provoking, or uplifting post. His range was impressive – from sports to music, politics to cooking, or tv shows to technology. It seems impossible that there will be no more of these treats to greet me. I first came to know Mike in 2011. That summer we returned back from…

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Reading is Dreaming With Your Eyes Open

Ellenore Angelidis — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 22:20:50 +0000

Leyla is the inspiration behind OHBD. Since she was three and discovered that some kids don’t get the chance to go to school or to learn read, she has been involved in changing that reality. In her words, “That’s not fair and we need to fix it.” When she was seven, she started writing her own talk and said she just needed a “coach.” We wanted to share her 2018 words with you again since they…

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Junior Board Blog Series: MacKenzie

Ellenore Angelidis — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 00:12:30 +0000

My name is MacKenzie. I am a freshman at Issaquah High School. My family adopted my youngest brother Ermias in 2013 when he was six and I was ten. I had the chance to go visit him when he was still living in Ethiopia. He had lived in the orphanage for two years. I played with him and his friends when I was there. Even though we didn’t understand each other we still had lots of fun together.

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