{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65675c71c3ca8a0012804645/65675c78c3ca8a0012804a53?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"1220: Talking About Covid with Your Children with Nerissa Holder Hall, Founder of Mirror Mirror Books","description":"<p>Nerissa Holder Hall is the founder of <a href=\"https://www.mirrormirrorbooks.com/\">Mirror Mirror Books</a>, a direct-to-consumer publishing company that creates picture books that help little kids handle life's big moments. Mirror Mirror's books come in 14 versions so the child in the book can look a bit like the child in your life. Their first book, The Day I Beat the Germs, tackles the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p>Nerissa is an award-winning producer of games, television, podcasts and social networks for kids. She has almost two decades of experience in children's media including with Nickelodeon, PBS/WNET, Pinna and Callaway Digital Arts where she led product development for a Ready to Learn project funded by the U.S. Department of Education.</p><p>Nerissa has a degree in English from Wellesley College and a Masters degree in communication and education from Columbia University’s Teachers College.</p><p>Nerissa was born and raised in New York. She founded Mirror Mirror Books with her husband with whom she lives, works and raises their 5-year old twins.</p>","author_name":"Farnoosh Torabi"}