Contact: Ellen Langas Campbell
610-458-1580, ellen@nousoma.com

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GIRLS KNOW HOW® BOOKS HELP KIDS CONSIDER CAREERS
Series Launches on Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, April 22

Downingtown, PA – March 24, 2004 – What do you want to be when you grow up? GIRLS KNOW HOW®, a new series of books for girls, debuts April 22 to help kids consider career opportunities. The series launch date coincides with “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work® Day,” a day dedicated to focusing on expanding future opportunities for all children, in both their work and family lives.

GIRLS KNOW HOW® books encourage young girls, ages 8 to 12, to pursue the careers of their dreams. Each book within the fiction series features a girl presented with a challenge who is encouraged by an accomplished woman at the pinnacle of her career, a character based on a real-life successful woman.

Marcia Bullard, President and CEO of USA WEEKEND, is the inspiration for the role model character in the first book, Will Stephanie Get the Story?, which focuses on journalism and tells the story of Stephanie, a new girl at school, and her quest to land a spot on the staff of the school Newspaper Club. Readers learn along with Stephanie that with hard work, any girl’s dream can come true. A bio and exclusive interview with Ms. Bullard are included to guide girls wishing to learn more about journalism.

“Girls can get big ideas from these books that will light their imaginations and show them how they can really make a difference with the careers they choose,” says Ms. Bullard. “I’m excited that in a few years, we might even see more women journalists because this book sparked an interest in the profession.”

“I grew up having interest in so many different career possibilities that it frustrated me not to be able to try them all,” says author and entrepreneur Ellen Langas Campbell, President of NouSoma Communications, Inc., Downingtown, PA. “Girls Know How books provide girls an opportunity to learn about different professions through the eyes of young girls who could be just like their next door neighbors, or even just like them.” An accomplished commercial actress and voice-over artist, Langas Campbell previously was a popular on-air host and corporate officer for television retailer QVC, Inc.

Next in the series is a story focusing on a career as an architect, due for release this fall. Girls Know How books are available at bookstores nationally and at www.girlsknowhow.com. For more information, call 610-458-1580 or e-mail books@nousoma.com.

Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work® is a program designed by the Ms. Foundation for Women. Visit www.daughtersandsonstowork.org.

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