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Activate your child’s curiosity, language, and love of learning from the very start. In Activate Curious, Capable Minds, early childhood literacy advocate Marcia Moon gives busy parents practical ways to use talk, reading, play, and everyday moments to help children grow as thinkers, communicators, and learners. Grounded in early brain research, it includes hundreds of examples of quality children’s books and shows how to choose and use them to develop comprehension, attention span, and vocabulary.

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Activate Curious, Capable Minds

A Busy Parent’s Guide to Literacy, Language, and Learning from Crib to Kindergarten

Parents do not need a complicated program to support early learning. They need clear guidance, strong books, purposeful conversation, and simple routines they can actually use.

This practical guide helps parents, grandparents, child care providers, preschool teachers, and homeschoolers make the most of the short, powerful window from birth through age five, when children’s language, attention, curiosity, and confidence are growing every day.

Marcia shows how one word, one book, one conversation, and one activity at a time can become the foundation for lifelong learning.

Practical ways to build language, attention, curiosity, and confidence.

Talk, read, and play with purpose

Use everyday interactions to expand vocabulary, attention span, background knowledge, and comprehension.

Choose better books

Hundreds of examples of high-quality children’s books, with guidance on how to choose and use them to build comprehension, attention span, and vocabulary.

Turn moments into learning

Use indoor and outdoor routines as language-rich experiences that invite curiosity and exploration.

Create a home literacy rhythm

Naturally introduce letters, sounds, early writing, math, science, and thoughtful conversation.

Offer screen-time alternatives

Build attention and connection with activities that are simple, engaging, and realistic for busy families.

Know what to look for

Better understand childcare and preschool settings through the lens of early language and learning.

Children are already intelligent and ready-made for learning. The adults around them help that learning compound.

The early years are the beginning of how children learn to listen, wonder, ask, connect, remember, and make meaning.

Marcia’s work starts from a simple truth: children are too often underestimated and underserved.

When the adults around them read, talk, listen, play, and extend ordinary experiences into purposeful exploration, children begin building the language and thinking habits that support every stage of learning to come.

This book helps parents stop second-guessing and start using the moments they already have with more clarity and confidence.

Written for the adults who shape a child’s first learning environment.

  • Parents of babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and children entering kindergarten
  • Grandparents and other caregivers who want time with children to be more meaningful
  • Child care providers, preschool teachers, and homeschoolers looking for practical, research-based literacy ideas
  • Librarians, booksellers, and literacy advocates who support families with young children
A mother reading a picture book with her young daughter on the sofa

Prefer a local shop?

Request it at your bookstore, retail store, or library

Any bookstore, retail store, or library can order Activate Curious, Capable Minds for you. Ask at the counter, or send them this note.

  1. Give them the title and the ISBN: 979-8-9952873-1-5
  2. Tell them the publisher is MoonKidsPress.
  3. Say it is available through Ingram.

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I'd like to order a copy of Activate Curious, Capable Minds: A Busy Parent's Guide to Literacy, Language, and Learning from Crib to Kindergarten by Marcia Moon (MoonKidsPress).

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Speaking & Events

Invite Marcia to speak

Marcia presented Activate Curious, Capable Minds at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago in June 2026.

She speaks to parent groups, schools, libraries, childcare programs, and conferences about early literacy, language, and learning from the very beginning, and she is glad to pair a talk with a bulk order of the book.

Contact Marcia

Marcia Moon

Early Childhood Literacy Advocate, Teacher, Consultant, and Parent Coach

Marcia Moon has worked with thousands of teachers, children, and parents across the country as a classroom teacher, consultant, and coach in early childhood centers and elementary schools.

Her work focuses on helping parents engage children from birth through age five in literacy and language development through reading aloud, purposeful talking, vocabulary building, play-based learning, and meaningful everyday experiences.

Marcia helps adults recognize the learning opportunities already present in daily life and use them to build curiosity, confidence, and strong foundations for future learning.

Ordering for a school, library, or organization?

Marcia can supply copies directly at a bulk discount for classrooms, parent groups, pediatric practices, libraries, and community organizations. Shipping is paid by the buyer, and direct orders take longer to arrive than Amazon — but for larger quantities they are often the better value.

Tell Marcia how many copies you need and she will send pricing. Schools, libraries, and programs can be invoiced against a purchase order, and she can supply a W-9 and remittance details on request.

Schools, libraries, and programs usually order against a purchase order. Marcia can supply an invoice, a W-9, and remittance details.

Marcia replies personally, usually within a couple of days. Prefer email? Write to marciabmoon@yahoo.com.