This year, local author Meeg Pincus, M.A., was awarded the Gold Kite Honor Award in Nonfiction Text for Younger Readers for her picture book Winged Wonders: Solving the Monarch Migration Mystery. She selected Traveling Stories to receive the $250 prize the came along with the award.

15-year-old Linh volunteers with Traveling Stories’ new Virtual StoryTent program to give back to the community she grew up in. She aims to help children fall in love with reading and understand that it’s not just an assignment for school.