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Family Starts Candles by Kids Business

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Candles by Kids9-year-old Alyssa and 6-year-old twins Dominic & Darius started Candles by Kids in Columbia, SC with the help of their parents.

They decided to give them a business loan after a family meeting and their scented candle making business has been booming ever since. Alyssa said she started the business because she wanted a laptop, and Darius mentioned that he wanted to buy a house.

Candles are one of the few products people continue to buy regardless of how the economy is doing. For example, according to the Boston Business Journal, Yankee Candle reported that their revenue is up 8% from 2010.

The earnings from Candles by Kids are divided between savings, toys and charity. The family came up with a charity of the month program on their website in order to help others.

In this video, you’ll see the young entrepreneurs traveling to beauty salons with their handmade candles. [youtube iN_fyfTfOpc]

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Book Review: Secret Stories of Lost Beasts

There are plenty of animals that used to exist on Earth that seem like they aren’t real, but they once were. Kids who love dinosaurs and other ancient creatures will enjoy Secret Stories of Lost Beasts: A Field Guide to Uncover Earth’s Ancient Animals by Sasika Gwinn, illustrated by Vasillia Romanenko. 

The book is designed like a field guide showing different extinct animals with detailed illustrations and a paragraph about each one. Here you’ll find:

  • amphibians
  • reptiles
  • dinosaurs
  • sea beasts
  • mammals
  • Ice Age mammals
  • bugs
  • birds

Readers will learn about animals like beezlebufo, or the devil frog, who lived alongside dinosaurs and may have been the heaviest frog who ever lived; staganolepis, a plant-eating, bony scaled reptile with a tail like a crocodile and a snout like a pig; mamenchisaurus, thought to have the longest neck of any dinosaur; the Tully monster, a creature so confusing scientists aren’t sure was a vertebrate or invertebrate; juramaia, the oldest known mammal ancestor that gave birth to live young; glytopdons, which looked like giant armadillos; animals of the Bering land bridge like woolly mammoth, Irish elk and giant sloths; the giant dragonfly meganeura monyi; birds with teeth like the woodpecker-like enanttiophoenix; big birds like the giant auk and Tasmanian emu; among many others.

Additional text includes information on things like the giant asteroid, carboniferous forests, the time period known as the great dying, and more.

In the back of the book you’ll find a timeline for these creatures and more recently lost animals, as well as a few endangered species like the deer-like silver-backed chevrotain.

Kids who love animals, especially dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals that are extinct, are sure to enjoy looking at the pictures in this book and learning more about these strange animals that seem like something out of legend. If you want to see if your dino-loving kid’s interests can expand to other animals, this might just be the book to do it.

About the book: 64 pages, hardcover. Published 2025 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail price $24.99.