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Lil’ Miss Story Hour
Lil’ Miss Story Hour

$4,071

Raised

Donations

$10,000

Goal



(Where's Rodney by Floyd Cooper
1st Annual Back to School Culture Fest
at 
KnobHill Urban Arts District, Colorado Springs
photo credit: Timmy Sperling)



Lil’ Miss Story Hour was founded and directed by Vanessa Little in 2019. We are a grass roots, Colorado Springs, Colorado-based donation-run educational organization, providing literacy themed programming and entertainment for children. We host monthly community story times that present a diverse range of children's literature, written and illustrated by a variety of amazing authors and illustrators, specifically from diverse communities and supports DEI ideology. The underrepresentation of diverse characters in children’s picture books and children’s literature is significant, and we want to change the narrative of the kind of books selected for children’s events. Thus, our main mission is to ensure that the children in this country know it is possible to access books with characters who look like them.


(I Am Perfectly Designed by Karamo and Jason Brown
3rd Annual Southern Colorado Juneteenth Festival 
at
America the Beautiful Park, Colorado Springs 
photo credit: Jenna Kempton)



Lil’ Miss Story Hour strives to foster imagination through literature and the Arts by ensuring that children see themselves represented in the books that they read. These efforts cannot take effect without the support of all of the members in our community. Due to an unexpected three month hospitalization last fall of Lil' Miss Story Hour's founder, Vanessa Little, we were unable to hold our fall FUNraiser in October 2022.  Hence, this Spring, we are working double time to make up for last Fall.  So, this year's Spring 2023's FUNraiser will run a few weeks longer from March 12, 2023 through April 30, 2023 as we need to raise extra funds for the Spring and Summer events season. This Spring, our goal will be $10,000, and we would greatly appreciate your sponsorship! 






(Porsha DeMarco-Douglas and Alexandre Valentino Skye, Drag Performance
1st Annual Drag FUNraiser and Story Time 
at 
ICONS Gay Bar, Colorado Springs
photo credit: Jenna Jennings)

  

Your generous donations will go to helping us cover artists stipends, venue space costs, and books and art materials. Your sponsorship will also ensure the ability for Lil' Miss Story Hour to continue bringing rich, intergenerational literacy and arts programming to the children of Colorado Springs and their families.




(Musical petting zoo with My Name is Harriet
3rd Annual Women's History Month S.T.E.A.M. Story Time
at 
Creations at the Edge, Colorado Springs
photo credit: Lindsay Maroney)



(Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
1st Annual Drag FUNraiser and Story Time
at 
ICONS Gay Bar, Colorado Springs
photo credit: Jenna Jennings)
 




(Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho
3rd Annual AAPI Story Time & Vendor Market
at 
Creations at the Edge, Colorado Springs
photo credit: Christine Flores)



(Out of Wonder by Kwame Alexander
3rd Annual Poetry and Jazz Month Story Time
at 
Converge Lecture Series, Colorado Springs
photo credit: Jenna Kempton)





(Life Doesn't Frighten Me by Maya Angelou
3rd Annual Black History Month Story Time
at 
Poetry 719 Black Voices Matter Open Mic & Black Vendor Market, Colorado Springs
photo credit: Jenna Kempton)




Thank you so much for your time, consideration, and support of Lil' Miss Story Hour, literacy, and the Arts!