Adults can talk until they are blue in the face trying to convince kids to read and write more. What works much better are kids the same age delivering that message — particularly if those children are Brianna and Brittany Winner. Brianna and Brittany are only in sixth grade but they are currently on a national school tour called “If You Can Dream It, You Can Write It.”

The girls, who are dyslexic, have won three Benjamin Franklin Awards: best adolescent fiction, best first new book fiction and best first book, adolescent fiction.
Their new book, THE STRAND PROPHECY, is now available across the nation, and Brianna and Brittany, along with their father Jeff, are available to share their inspiring story with your audience.

They can discuss:

• How it feels to have their book be part of advanced reading programs in 65,000 schools and to be covered by MSNBC, CBS and CNN.

• Highlights of their high-tech school tour.

• Ways the book project helped them overcome their own feelings of inadequacy.

• How Jeff capitalized on the twins’ love of comic books, superheroes and science fiction.

• How the family worked on the book between homework and bedtime and the funny things that ensued as a result.

• The greatest lessons the girls learned from working with their father.

CREDENTIALS: Under the pen name J.B.B. Winner, Jeff, Brianna and Brittany wrote the award-winning fantasy novel THE STRAND PROPHECY.

AVAILABILITY: Nationwide via telephone
CONTACT: Ilene Gayron, (714) 396-7685, or
Jeff Winner, (714) 420-5883; Jeff@missilerider.com; www.thestrandprophecy.com