"Hi, Jodi! I wanted to share pictures of my 8-year-old daughter, Collins with you. She’s recently won her school’s reading fair, and her district-level reading fair with “The Dirt Girl.” We love your book, and she will compete at the state level in a few weeks for the State of Mississippi!"
We are all rooting for you Collins at Jodi Dee Publishing!
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]]>Author Jodi Dee has launched her book Create a Home of Learning for FREE to all parents! Have a listen - The book is available to purchase on all major retailers.
Children learn while they play! Transform your home into a home of learning by using these easy-to-follow instructions, lists of toys and equipment by age, and simple ways to promote play. Set up small learning areas and learn how to facilitate years of screen-free fun and discovery right at home! By leveraging the combined experience, knowledge, and practical application typically used and implemented in leading and accredited preschools, you can create your own home of learning!
]]>Amia, a young girl with fair skin and brown hair, lives in a town where everything is simple and everything is the same. She loves snow so much that on her birthday, “I wished I could eat all the snow I ever wanted.” When it snows, she gets her wish—and consumes all the snow in town. The townspeople are furious and demand that Amia be kept indoors when it snows. One fateful day the following winter, the town is hit by a dangerous blizzard. No one can get out until a small child remembers Amia’s superpower.
This clever take on the theme of accepting others melds with another moral lesson: the importance of using your passion for the good of your community. Dee uses short, simple sentences to make the story accessible for young readers; the full-color illustrations, done in collaboration with Das, blend realism and whimsy, much like the story itself. Though the village’s houses and streets are identical, the people are very diverse:
The concerned citizens have several different skin tones, and at least one resident wears a hijab. Amia and her sister are depicted looking very like each other but quite different from their father, suggesting that they are a blended or adoptive family.
A modern fable with a unique twist on old themes.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jodi-dee/the-snow-monster/
]]>In the late 1700s, a sapling wants to enjoy the presence of all other living creatures. But while most animals will stop and sit with the small tree, one group will not: humans. First represented by a group of Native hunters, then by European settlers in covered wagons and Puritan home builders, the humans go about their own business, never stopping to sit with the tree. In a repeated refrain, the seeking tree asks, “Will you sit with us?” An older voice of the forest answers, “They are busy, Young One.”
Each time, the tree grows more frustrated, until the forest is cleared away, first for farmland, then a city, and finally a futuristic megalopolis. In this last setting, the tree stands alone and is finally approached by a human family in space suits, who sit with the tree and gather its seeds, hopeful for the future. Dee and Oldaker create beautiful painted illustrations; the natural world’s beauty is highlighted even as it diminishes in each spread until it is overtaken. The impact of the images, and of the frustration in the seeking tree’s repeated text, ably communicates the message of how important it is to commune with the natural world.
An accessible call to appreciate nature.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jodi-dee/the-seeking-tree/
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"As I was writing my outline for my entrepreneur class at our local High School I realized how important this is. Not every person who graduates from high school will follow a traditional track of going to college and finding a corporate job. Today more than ever, teens have access to unlimited information and resources (You Tube, online classes, ecommerce, Amazon Seller Central, and more)- what most of us didn't have growing up. They can learn and do anything they desire - IF they are empowered and led to do so. It is our responsibility as adults to facilitate and support it. I may turn this into an online class for anyone! If we don't give back what we have to future generations, society will suffer..." - Jodi Dee
#entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #givingback
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Our 2023 line up is finalized! Jodi Dee has 3 new titles coming out.
A young sapling sprouts and is excited about its new world. It yearns to connect with all that pass by, especially humans. It watches humanity evolve as it grows. Unfortunately, humans do not stop or understand until it’s too late. Follow its journey through time and how one little girl finally sits with the old tree and changes history. (10x10 Full color, hardcover picture book. Pre-K- Grade 3, 32 pages - $18.99) Spring 2023 Co-Illustrated by Kaya Oldaker
As Amia blows out the candles on her 9th birthday, she closes her eyes and makes a wish. But when her wish comes true in a way no one could predict, it turns out to be a curse! Tuntle Town declares Amia cannot leave her house when it snows. She is devastated. Find out how as Amia blows out the candles on her 10th birthday, her new wish changes everything. (10x10 Full color, hardcover picture book. Pre-K- Grade 3, 32 pages - $18.99) – Fall 2023 Co-Illustrated by Chandrani Das
Myles is a typical, average 11 year old boy until one day things drastically change. A girl Myles admires Sally Munson shows up to school with purple pants on. She becomes the joke of the day. Myles starts to see the teasing as fireballs of energy being thrown at her! He finds himself in the middle of a war zone, invisible to everyone but him. To make matters worse he later uncovers boxes of artifacts and a finds letter from his dead grandmother who’s trying to warn him from beyond. Danger is coming. Follow Myles as he tries to understand his new found superpower and how he’s the only person on Earth who can stop an ancient but powerful secret regime from enslaving all. (5x7, Middle Grade, Hardcover, page tbd $11.99) – Fall 2023 (will have some black and white pictures throughout) Co-Illustrated by Amel Art
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]]>In partnership with Planet Aid to raise awareness of the importance of reusing, recycling, and donations, the protagonist, a little green jacket, travels through the lives of different children around the country and ends on the other side of the world after a natural disaster! See how the jacket experiences the magic and power of being a donation.
Available at Amazon, Target, Barnes & Noble and jodidee.com!
Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2020
Purchase The Little Green Jacket now as part of a special limited time bundle!
]]>The Dirt Girl is a reminder for all of us, young and old, to proudly embrace our true selves. Beautifully illustrated and highly captivating, Zafera’s adventures will capture your heart and bring joy to your day.
Review by Dr. Carol Tolman
Literacy Consultant, Co-Author of LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling), and lover of language
Dr. Carol Tolman, has LETRS® is a flexible literacy professional development solution for preK–12 educators. LETRS earned the International Dyslexia Association's Accreditation and provides teachers with the skills they need to master the fundamentals of reading instruction—phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, and language. https://www.voyagersopris.com/professional-development/letrs/overview
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