Screens, Beans, and Quarantines with Mel Kaspin Blume

Published: Aug. 4, 2020, 3 p.m.

Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to explain to your kids about the pandemic? If you are, we have just what you are looking for!\n\nUnderstanding COVID-19 and quarantine has been challenging for most of us. For parents, explaining the coronavirus pandemic has been even more complicated. Mel Kaspin Blume, the mother of a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son, resorted to her innate talent, the art of storytelling.\n\n\u201cScreens, Beans, and Quarantines\u201d is the result. This free, downloadable children\u2019s book that teachers from Los Angeles to New York, Atlanta to Denver, are reading to their students via Zoom, is a charming solution. Mel wanted to help them understand this strange new world. You can download your free copy of Screens, Beans, and Quarantines at https://www.onceuponablume.com\n\nMel Kaspin Blume\u2019s \u201cOnce Upon a Blume,\u201d is a one-person branding and copywriting agency specializing in the art of storytelling. Before starting her own company, Mel was the former Head of Copy at Disney Consumer Products. She created an in-depth storytelling copy for products from Disney, Pixar, Lucas Film, and Marvel. She has also written for a range of companies, including Forbes and Cond\xe9 Nast.\n\nJoin Mel Kaspin Blume me on Tuesday, August 4, 10-11 A.M. CT US. We will be having a conversation about her remarkable life\u2019s journey, and her gift to families everywhere, \u201cScreens, Beans, and Quarantines.\u201d