'From Julia' Articles

Language learning doesn’t begin and end for me at the office. I grew up bilingual in French and English and am passionate about passing on le français to my two children- Emmett and Adrian. Here’s a cute video I shot last week of them counting in French while playing in the kitchen one morning…
Seeing them [...]

I’m blogging live from the American International Toy Fair! This huge four-day event draws companies from all over the world. The trade show features the newest and hottest products for children and is the largest conference in the Western Hemisphere. Thankfully, it’s held in New York, so we don’t have to travel to attend.
The response [...]

This past weekend I was back at my alma mater, Yale University. As part of a celebration marking 40 years of coeducation at Yale, I was invited to screen the first full length documentary I ever made: “Boola Boola…Yale Goes Coed”.
It was great to be back at Yale; a place that holds wonderful memories for [...]

This morning I had the exciting opportunity to be interviewed by Sarah French (a Little Pim-approved surname!) on the Fox61 Connecticut morning show about foreign language learning for kids.
Sarah was interested in knowing why it’s so much easier for young children to absorb a new language and at what age they should start — you [...]

Our world is becoming more and more crowded with media.  Whether in our living rooms, on our commutes or in our classrooms, every waking moment can be occupied by consuming media. Whether it’s looking up “what causes earthquakes” on Google with my eldest son Emmett and finding a video to explain it, or the news feeds [...]

The Little Pim holiday party was last week. It felt great to celebrate and thank the many people who have worked so hard all year to grow our company – our staff, filmmakers, editors, graphic designer, animators, fulfillment house, website manager, advisors and investors, to name just a few. I feel incredibly lucky that we [...]

Great news: Good Day LA on Fox 11 News featured Little Pim! Jillian Reynolds, a host for the show, included Little Pim in her Style File segment entitled “Jill’s Favorite Baby Gifts.” She gushed over Spanish Bop, our Word & Phrase Cards, and of course the DVDs. I’m so happy to help her daughter, Ruby, [...]

We are having a blast recording our new Little Pim DVDs in French, Spanish and Chinese. It’s great to be back in the recording studio hearing our talented voiceover artists bring Little Pim to life. After three months of editing, we have an amazing video track and dozens of children and babies acting out the [...]

BusinessWeek has just named Little Pim one of America’s Most Promising Startups! We’re featured third in a list of 89 small businesses.
The article by Nick Leiber touched on why I created Little Pim, the language teaching legacy I inherited from my father, and Little Pim’s growth trajectory to date.
The article also mentioned our soon-to-be-released Little [...]

Last weekend I attended a talk at a local Barnes & Noble by Dr. Ellen Bialystok, who was speaking about the cognitive benefits of children being bilingual. She is a Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at York University in Canada. I have been following her work for a long time and have cited her research [...]