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PERIGEE Trade Paperback August 2012
PRESCHOOL GEMS
Love, Death, Magic, and Other Surprising
Treasures from the Mouths of Babes
Leslie McCollom
978-0-399-53755-4 • $13.00/$13.99 Can.
Trade Paperback
128 pp./5” x 7”
Carton: 92
Humor/Family
Rights: W00
First serial, UK, translation, audio: Perigee
Other: Levine Greenberg Literary Agency, Inc.
307 Seventh Avenue, Suite 2407
New York, NY 10001
Publishing History: Original
EAN: 9780399537554 51300
On sale August 7, 2012
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They said what?!
The revealing, hilarious, and bizarre-but-true
things overheard in preschool classrooms, based
on the Twitter sensation.
Preschool teacher Leslie McCollom records the often inexplicable,
unpredictable, and jaw-dropping remarks uttered in her Portland,
Oregon, classroom. Preschool Gems is a collection of the best of her
findings, from the sinister and shocking to the cute and naively sincere:
• “I love David Bowie. I’m going to marry David Bowie.”
• “But there’s a ghost in the sandbox, and he’s activating the toys and
turning them into traps!”
• “Remember what I told you in the bathroom: Life is more important
than anything.”
• “When I’m an old man with a walking stick I’ll still remember you...
but you’ll be dead.”
• “I don’t care about time outs. I only care about my life.”
• “When I grow up I want to be a Canadian.”
MARKETING
• Pacific Northwest media and in-store author appearances
• Regional radio interviews
• Online publicity
• Online advertising
• Social media outreach
• Print features and reviews
• 6-copy solid counter unit with special header
978-0-399-15965-7 @ $78.00/$83.94 Can.
6” w x 8 1/4” h x 7” d
SALES POINTS
• McCollom’s Preschool Gems Twitter feed grew from 8,000 followers to 85,000
in a matter of months, and continues to gain new followers daily
• Notable followers include Gwyneth Paltrow, Jad Abrumad of NPR’s Radiolab,
Tucker Max, various Glee cast members, and Mystery Science Theater 3000’s
Bill Corbett
• A Kids Say the Darnedest Things for a new generation
• Perfect for parents of young children, teachers, educators, and general
humor readers
Leslie McCollom is a 28-year-old writer and educator living in Portland,
Oregon. She teaches pre-K at New Day School, a gem of a school itself, which
offers full-day programs for children between the ages of two and a half to six
years old. Author website: twitter.com/preschoolgems
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