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June Smalls
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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · May 5
Ever wonder what’s hiding underground? 🧐 Go digging for dinos (& other fun surprises!) in this adorable lift-the-flap book. 🦖 Preorder now & let the fossil hunt begin!

Digging for Dinosaurs and Digging for Dinosaurs: At the Beach (On sale: May 6, 2025)

✍️ June Smalls
🎨 Grace Habib

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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · 2d
Had a great time kicking off Dino-vember at Bowman Library. Got to meet Stevie the T-Rex from Dinoquest Adventures and found out his favorite book is Digging for Dinosaurs!

Crafts, storytime, & dino dancing made for a perfect Saturday!

#LibrariesRock #Dino #paleontology @sbkslibrary.bsky.social
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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · 2d
A moment of silence for everyone who realized if you had glitter as part of your Halloween costume, or were close with someone who did, that glitter is now a part of your life for the foreseeable future.
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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · 9d
From now through November 10th if you buy 3 or more STEM books you get 40% off!

Perfect for National STEM Day on November 8.

Check these and more out at:
familius.com/stem-and-ste...

#sale #kidlit #STEM #STEAM #ChildrensBooks #nonfictionforkids #holidaygifts #picturebook #Classroom #homeschool
Books by June Smalls, including She Leads: The Elephant Matriarch, He Leads: Mountain Gorilla, the Gentle Giant, They Lead: The Wolf Pack, and They Work, Honey Bees, Nature's Pollinators. 40% off when you buy 3 or more STEM books with Code STEAM2025 at Familius. June Smalls sound book Hear Them Roar! 14 Endangered Animals from Around the World. This is part of the sale with 40% off when you buy 3 or more STEM books with Code STEAM2025 at Familius.
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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · 23d
How fun!
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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · 23d
Why do these never cease to amaze me?
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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · Oct 3
We may have assisted a little... We were impatient little kids.
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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · Oct 3
We used to catch these spiders as kids and bring them to the garden to protect. Watching them capture and wrap a grasshopper at amazing speeds is still a core memory!
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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · Oct 1
Yes! And @mychal3ts.bsky.social is the host.
I loved the show and the tie-ins to learn about cool things.
Reading Rainbow was absolutely inspiring for me, wondering how things came to be.
Maybe why I love to physically do things I write about. I've dug for fossils and met an elephant.
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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · Oct 1
It's an amazing feeling when you see something you helped create being shared across the globe.

THEY WORK: HONEY BEES, NATURE'S POLLINATORS

Like a hive, we had to work together to create something amazing!

🖋 June Smalls
🎨 Yukari Mishima
🐝

#KidLit #Teamwork #HoneyBee #Art #Illustration #STEM #NF
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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · Oct 1
That's so cool though. Fingers crossed that it sees publishing light some day!

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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · Oct 1
This broke me as a child!!!
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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · Oct 1
Loved Richard Scary!!!
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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · Oct 1
Exactly! And some were performers who could pull you in. They knew how to play those *pauses*, when to read fast, when to whisper. I remember scooting forward in my seat waiting to hear the next parts.
Reading aloud is magic and probably why some will always love audio books too.

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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · Oct 1
Somewhere in Maryland they had a Poe Performance that ran through the 6ish most popular Poe stories and had the best Poe impersonator. So worth seeing!

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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · Oct 1
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I always forget too that some of our favs have been rewritten for the modern sensibility.

My kid got fussed at in preschool for telling the other kids that the grasshopper froze to death in the story of the Ants and the Grasshopper.
Apparently now he moves in with the kind ants.
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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · Oct 1
That's why it was perfect that the boxcar was moved to grandpa's backyard! 😉

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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · Oct 1
I remember one of my middle school teachers reading The Raven in the most intense yet melodic tone. I was hooked!

I tried writing my own version for YEARS.

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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · Oct 1
Nah, my kid watched Jaws at age 5 (hanging out at grandma's!) and it became her favorite. Luckily she thought it was silly since sharks don't act like that.

Nonfiction for the win!

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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · Oct 1
YES! I read all of them! Even years later, when I saw there were a few more Saddle Clubs, I had to read them.
I liked some dragon books as a kid, but only light fantasy. I didn't have the attention span for heavy fantasy and I hated anything where the dragon was hunted.

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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · Oct 1
That's why books are great. You can have millions of cats in a book!

I think that's why I loved horse books. I'd never own one. But a kid can dream!

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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · Oct 1
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What about favorites that teachers read or that we read as a class?
I loved:
Mouse and the Motorcycle
Trumpet of the Swan
Island of the Blue Dolphin

There was something I loved about certain teachers reading out loud.
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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · Oct 1
YES!
I wrote the book report in the early 90's.
I think it was a lyrical picture book (I think).
Maybe the MC was Robin Redbreast?
Illustration of dead robin.
That's all I got.

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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · Oct 1
😂
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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · Oct 1
Love this!
I remember writing a book report on a picture book about a dead robin. I remember loving the book and how my mother gave a weird face at my choice when I had so many others to choose from. I'd love to find it someday.

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June Smalls @junesmalls.bsky.social · Oct 1
Oh my gosh, me too! I chose the ones at the library that were the same size as The Saddle Club and The Boxcar Children so I could sneak them into the pile.

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