Wally Amos Biography

Famous Wally Amos' name is well-known. Chip & Cookie, with retail locations in Waikiki and Kailua Town, Hawaii, as well as an e-commerce site (ChipandCookie.com), features five flavors of cookies and two chocolate chip cookie plush character dolls, "Chip" and "Cookie," as well as other gift and apparel items designed by his wife, Christine Harris-Amos. In 2005, Wally and Christine Amos co-founded the Read It LOUD! Foundation (ReadItLoud.org), advocating parents and caregivers to read aloud to their children for at least 10 minutes every day. The foundation will get 10% of Chip & Cookie's net income to fund its efforts to encourage children's reading. They launched Read It LOUD! Savannah in August 2006, utilizing Savannah as their trial city. Read It LOUD! just launched a national campaign in collaboration with the Library of Congress and the United States Postal Service. Amos co-founded Uncle Wally's Muffin Company in 1994, which makes a comprehensive line of muffins. He has utilized his celebrity to assist educational causes as the originator of Famous Amos Cookies in 1975 and the father of the gourmet chocolate chip cookie industry. From 1979 through 2002, Amos served as the National Spokesman for Literacy Volunteers of America, which amalgamated with the Laubach Literacy Council to form ProLiteracy Worldwide. He now considers himself a literacy advocate. He formerly served on the boards of the National Center for Family Literacy and Communities in Schools. He is also the Chairman of the Read It LOUD! Foundation. Amos has received several distinctions and medals. He donated his soiled shirt and damaged Panama hat to the Smithsonian Institution's Business Americana Collection. He has earned the Horatio Alger Award, the President's Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence, and the National Literacy Honors Award, as well as being admitted into the Babson College Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs. Amos is also an author, having published eight books, including his autobiography, The Famous Amos Story: The Power in You: Ten Secret Ingredients for Inner Strength; The Face That Launched a Thousand Chips Man With No Name: Make Lemonade from Lemons; Watermelon Magic: Wisdom Seeds and Slices of Life The Cookie Never Crumbles: Insightful Recipes for Everyday Life; Be Positive; The Power of Self-Esteem: Discovering and Fulfilling Your Life Goals; Live an Inspiring Life: Ten Secret Ingredients for Inner Strength; and Positive Thinking Paves the Way to Success. Amos has been in a number of network sitcoms as well as hundreds of interview shows, news programs, instructional programs, and advertisements throughout the years. On the speaking circuit, he inspires audiences at firms, trade organisations, and colleges with his upbeat "do it" approach. Watermelon is Amos' favorite fruit. He has watermelons painted on his vehicle and baggage, and he wears it on his head, feet, and torso. Wally Amos is known to almost 150 million Americans. His celebrity is built on quality, substance, and a good attitude.

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