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Sunday, January 15, 2012

John Steinbeck on Love

John Steinbeck's advice to his son on love..."If it is right, it happens -- The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."

The letter to his son is here.

Monday, November 28, 2011

Cyber Monday Specials from Classic Coup

On sale today are our 3 newest shirts. They retail for $24 but TODAY ONLY are $20. They are NOT on the website for purchase yet, but you can buy them by sending me an email at clmccain@comcast.net for more information. For other designs go to www.classiccoup.com.

Referencing To Kill a Mockingbird...

Our signature shirt with a running list of beloved classics:

And for those writers/lovers of the written word, our "Twain" shirt, worn here by T. A. Barron, NYTimes/International Best Selling Author:

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Rebel Reads on the Road Less Traveled

Classic Coup...The European Tour

Classic Coup on Tour: North and South America, Alaska, Middle East

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Classic Coup Featured on Funky Finds

See what Funky Finds, a blog dedicated since 2006 to promoting independent artists and designers worldwide, has to say about Classic Coup. You can also register for two of our shirts to be given away July 19 by going here: http://funkyfinds.blogspot.com/

Monday, May 9, 2011

Global Book Groups via Skype

Classic Coup is about more than reading books. We're about talking books. Lit is life, evoking global discussions and reminding us of human connections. This year we sent The Great Gatsby, Night, Glass Menagerie, A Separate Peace and Romeo and Juliet to high school students in an English class in Quito, Ecuador. Via Skype students in South America discussed A Separate Peace and Romeo and Juliet with peers in Nashville, Tennessee. Friendship, love, and marriage made hot topics.

A couple of months later, their teacher, Sherry Coyle, wrote this: "Without the Romeo and Juliet books you provided for my seniors this year, they would have graduated never having read a Shakespeare play. And...without having read the play, one of my students would have never had the chance to take first place today in a local Shakespeare speech competition." Way to go, Andrea!

Sherry and Andrea Spring 2011

First Book Discussion: Ecuador and Nashville, Fall 2010

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Books for Children in Ecuador

Classic Coup supports global education. With proceeds from our shirts we send books to Quito, Ecuador. There Kaleo Kids, a non-profit organization providing shelter, education and assistance to children, distributes them.

In the Amazonian region and the Sierra about 24% of the population suffer from malnutrition. Ecuador is below the Latin American level in primary education registration with less than half the children who attend school completing basic education. While 8 Indigenous out of 10 are registered for basic education, only 2 of them complete it.

Below are children in a Quito orphanage that the founders of Kaleo Kids, Sherry and Darin Coyle, fell in love with on their visit to Ecuador in 2009 (see text below).

Sherry Coyle (above) co-founded Kaleo Kids with her husband, Darin in 2009. Cindy McCain (who started Classic Coup in 2009 also) began teaching with Sherry, then single, in Nashville, Tennessee in the 1990s. Today Sherry's family of five lives in Quito where she teaches high school English. Next week her students in South America will join Cindy's in Nashville via Skype to discuss "A Separate Peace," John Knowle's coming-of-age classic about teen friendships. Stay tuned for more on the launch of our international reading group.

Below are some of the elementary/middle school favorites recently sent to Ecuador.