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Selfies, filters, unrealistic beauty standards & SOCIAL MEDIA are destroying kids. 💔today at 📸 retakes. These kids are unnecessarily critical of themselves bc they fear what others will say or do when their pics go in the yearbook. Something HAS to change!

Dear Fresca: You’ve never met Dennis (our amazing security guard) but you NEED to know him! He brings extra joy to our school staff EVERY Friday w/his bubbly smile in celebration of our new favorite holiday: FRESCA FRIDAY! You’ve got lots of fans over here because of him!

As we get ready to welcome 2025, we're looking back at 2024 releases. SKRUM by Bernard Gumz CURLILOCKS by Andrew Hacket 🍁 jan dolby 🍁 BROOMMATES by Lynne Marie - BroomMates Are Flying off the Shelf Brenda Reeves Sturgis Nico Ecenarro ✐ GOAT'S BOAT WON'T FLOAT by Kim A. Larson / Goat's Boat Won't Float Gözde Eyce WONDER OF THE WOODS by Bonnie Kelso ~SLEEPY SEA / DEXTER THE STAND UP DOG

Happy 2025 AMAZING people🥰 We thank you for being you and bringing your awesomeness to the world🌟 #kindness #kindnesschampions #2025 #ubuntu❤️ Dave Jenkins @sam_odriscoll25 Self-Care Forum 💙 Sharon McCarthy Loris Elizabeth Blye RAD Warrior @StephLittlePsyc Cathey

Happy book birthday elly swartz! Same Page is already checked out to two of our rockstar readers & our AP Jared Hoch! So excited for everyone to meet Bess & The Book Warriors as they see why kids deserve the right to read & think about what it really means to listen ❤️

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Attention! To celebrate our 5th birthday we are having a #pitchparty! March 20-details below & at littlepresspublishing.com/submissions 4+ editors participating! Many of our titles have come from pitch events! #MSWL #tlppitch THE UNBOXING OF A BLACK GIRL is OUT NOW Mjbrowneditor Lynne Marie - BroomMates Are Flying off the Shelf Michele McAvoy 🎟📚 (she/her)

I remember telling them to take enough books from my classroom library for at least 2 weeks, but to take more just in case bc we had NO clue what was about to happen. All the feels looking back at this picture from 5 years ago today….

TY! 2 Everyone who participated in #TLPPitch! Hundreds of pitches! We are feeling the bday ❤️ plz email ONLY the editors) that liked your pitch. Emails on our site at the Team tab. littlepresspublishing.com We are still going thru!

Had an amazing day sharing Love Is Loud by Sandra Neil Wallace🗽 LOVE IS LOUD & bryan collier with one of my fav SS colleague’s 7th gr. classes to help them learn about an important Black woman in our country’s history! If you don’t know this book-you need to. It sparked INCREDIBLE conversations!

I ❤️ when kids get excited to be an early reader of an upcoming book & am so grateful to be able to share ARCs w/them to get their feedback! This young man ❤️d JenCalonita’s Isle of Ever (out Tues) & made sure to finish by today so he could write to Jen! Happy early book bday!

This is just to say… THANK YOU First Book 🤩 Thank you for being inclusive & ensuring that we can provide access to amazing books for our kids! ❤️ the books you’ve selected to “Celebrate the unique experiences and perspectives of neurodivergent and disabled individuals”

Huge thanks AMDPTA for tomorrow’s 6th grade virtual visit w/Ernesto Cisneros: On Social Media Hiatus. 👀 @ this text from a colleague today: “wanted you to know that the kids all literally cheered as soon as I said his name! They cheered with arms raised in the air. I wish you had been there.” 🥰😍

What a full circle moment for our 6th graders to talk with Ernesto Cisneros: On Social Media Hiatus, author of Efrén Divided/Efrén Dividido today. 🤩✍️📚Their questions were OUT OF THIS 🌎 & the poem one student wrote (📷↘️) & shared was the perfect ending to this meaningful experience! TY AMDPTA🥰

The sweetest message yesterday from one of my former students for #nationalschoollibrarianday 🥰

❤️❤️ I feel lucky to not only be able to provide a space for kids & but to also let them know that I see them & they belong! Sending some ❤️to Author Lisa Fipps - for your words & for being you!

Heading to Google with some of the best kids & colleagues! Best day before spring break! Mike Hanna Allison Bacon #GeniusBar

I get to help bring someone’s book baby into the world!!! 🥰 DON’T FRET, FRIDA by debut MG author Laurie Brown is set for publication in spring 2027 by The Little Press Publishing ! My grama always told me not to fret in life, and I know this would make her so proud!

Such a beautiful & intimate evening hearing THE Nikki Grimes share her work accompanied by her brother Kendall on bass! Such an honor to witness their first collaboration!

When the reality BEYOND exceeds the expectation because the PD on AI is provided by Allison Bacon! Nobody else I know could have engaged a packed cafeteria of educators on the LAST day of school the way she did! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Brisk Teaching MagicSchool AI 💜 🪄✨