Young children can now read and practice spelling while having fun and building snowmen. This is an initiative created by Gary Kosman and Grace May Chiu, the award winning authors of "Bonding While Learning." Parents are thus provided with free, snow-play activities to help young children learn to read and write while strengthening the parent-child relationship.

Younger children can more easily learn their letters while doing these winter activities and building snowmen, while older children can practice their spelling while decorating the snow with materials families already have at home. These free and innovative literacy activities can be downloaded by both parents and grandparents at the "Bonding While Learning" website (http://americalearns.net/families.htm ).

Given the extraordinarily positive response that Kosman and Chiu's newest book, "Bonding While Learning," has received from parents, grandparents, preschools, elementary schools and home schools worldwide in the first months since its release, the authors decided to celebrate that success by creating these wintertime activities that families living in snowy areas can use to make learning time quality family time as well.

"Parents and grandparents love 'Bonding While Learning' activities because the activities have a major focus on relationship building, are written as easy-to-follow recipes, are fun to do, and take little time to prepare. 'Bonding While Learning' activities give young children an opportunity to learn while participating in meaningful, memorable, family moments," stated Kosman.

"Bonding While Learning" was named an "Excellent Product of 2007" by the iParenting Media Awards, one of the most prestigious award programs for parenting products. Aside from receiving positive reviews from the parenting and education communities, in his newest book, "Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World," former President Bill Clinton recognizes Kosman's efforts of working to ensure that every child develops the literacy skills needed for academic and lifelong success.

America Learns, based in Los Angeles, is a global educational performance and accountability firm reaching over 20,000 students worldwide. The company's flagship service, the America Learns Network, helps organizations to simultaneously collect their educators' best practices from the field, share those strategies with educators as soon as they need them, and measure educators' performance. Organizations using its services include universities (e.g., Dwight Hall at Yale, Duke University, UC Berkeley, Georgetown, and the University of Michigan), community-based nonprofits, after-school programs, and school districts (e.g., the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and the Minneapolis Public Schools).

For further information, please visit http://www.americalearns.net .