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Baby Bird Productions
by Barbara Freedman-DeVito

My Internet business, Baby Bird Productions, is the outgrowth of
many years of involvement with kids, children's literature and
animals.

It is named Baby Bird Productions in honor of Bucky, a wonderful
pigeon who came to us as an orphaned baby bird, and who spent his
life with my husband Bob and me because of a wing defect that
prevented him from flying and surviving in the wild. Bucky was a
loving and trusting friend, playful and affectionate, and it is his
image which appears on many pages of our website. During the years
that Bob worked for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals we also raised and released many other orphaned
wild birds and animals, such as pigeons, ducks, raccoons, squirrels,
and opossums.

This concern for animals and for encouraging children to be kind to
animals and to each other has played a major role in my career. I
started out with a degree in fine arts and certification as an art
teacher and later returned to school for a Master's degree in
Library Science, with a focus on the study of children's literature.
As a children's librarian I was able to share great stories and
encourage reading skills, to put on puppet shows, and conduct art
and craft projects to help nurture children's creativity, choosing
themes that would also help children develop into caring adults. I
tried to foster cooperation, sharing and compassion for animals. My
library storyhours and skits gradually became more and more
elaborate until I eventually became a professional freelance
storyteller and puppeteer, writing and performing my own stories and
adapting fairy tales from around the world and creating my own
costumes and props. I performed at places such as libraries, private
birthday parties and parks. I even performed at a medieval English
castle and the Royal Parks of London.

In 2000 Bob and I decided to create a website where I could reach a
wider audience by converting my own children's stories into online
picture books, some with animated illustrations. It took us three
and a half years to prepare the site to go live, as I had to first
illustrate my stories on paper and we then had to scan and otherwise
prepare the artwork and text on the computer and then turn them into
finished book pages, in order to complete our first dozen stories.
We also had to create the website itself, plus the free educational
content that we've included on the site.

All of this took a lot of effort and persistence, and we only had
weekends available to work on Baby Bird Productions. We had never
owned a personal computer and had to teach ourselves to use each
software application and to handle the ins and outs of being
webmasters, but we've done everything ourselves and have journeyed
from "How do you turn the computer on ?" to comfortably working
directly in html code.

Since going live at the very end of 2003, our site has grown
dramatically. In addition to offering animated and still picture
children's stories and fairy tales as downloads, we now also have a
shop where our stories can be purchased on CDs and where other items
like T-shirts, sweatshirts, baseball jerseys, caps, mugs, mouse
pads, clocks, fridge magnets, and tote bags are available. They're
all decorated with pictures from our stories so that kids can wear
the clothing while viewing the stories. We also have a baby shop
with baby crawlers, bibs, Teddy bears and more, plus a fine art shop
for framed prints of my drawings of birds and animals. We have also
greatly expanded our free content which provides games and plenty of
activity ideas for children, teacher worksheets on school topics and
tips for parents about the importance of nurturing reading skills
and creativity in their children.

Baby Bird Productions is truly our baby. It embodies everything that
we've aspired to and our hopes to earn our living independently,
100% through our own effort, while doing something that is creative,
fun, limitless in possibilities and that can hopefully have a
positive influence on children.

You can visit Baby Bird Productions at Baby Bird Productions:
http://www.babybirdproductions.com/


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