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Mohrbooks Literary Agency
Sebastian Ritscher
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ROCK THAT VOTE!

Meg Fleming Lucy Ruth Cummins

An interactive, joyful celebration of classroom elections and the power of voting.
Fins, paws, wings, or claws? With so many choices for a new class pet, these kids has the big task of picking a critter to become part of their classroom family. To make sure it's all fair and square, they put it to a vote! As the students make posters to support their choice and excitedly submit their ballots, readers can join the chants and cheers to make sure everyone rocks that vote!

Key selling points
- Always timely: Can be used at any time to introduce voting to young readers!
- Social and emotional learning: When two friends disagree about a vote, their teacher helps them talk through what happened so they both can understand and models how we can move past disagreements.
- Classroom applications: The lesson about voting goes beyond the class pet and can be worked into lessons about any big decision a class might make together

Meg Fleming is an award-winning children's book author, a fan of all dogs and a big-time laugher. Also a voice teacher and former music educator, Meg draws on her love of rhythm, rhyme, and lyricism to create and imagine stories. Her previous titles include Here Comes Ocean, Sometimes Rain, and Ready, Set, Build. She writes from her home outside of San Francisco, where she lives with her three kids, her one husband and her dancy-prancy dog named Opal.

Lucy Ruth Cummins spends her days as an art director, working one very thing from picture books on up to young adult novels. She is the author-illustrator of Stumpkin and Vampenguin and has previously illustrated This Is Not a Valentine by Carter Higgins, Truman by Jean Reidy, and From Ed's to Ned's by Gideon Sterer. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.
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Published 2022-10-04 by Dial Books for Young Readers

Comments

The brightly colored illustrations - a mix of gouache, colored pencil, brush marker, and digital finishing touches - present a vibrant classroom full of diverse children, and the text features a flowing rhyme scheme that reads aloud beautifully.

Fleming's energetic text is perfectly matched by Cummin's vibrant illustrations. Rhyming books are notoriously tricky to pull off, and Fleming manages that feat. Cummin's art echoes pictures that could be proudly displayed on elementary school walls. Together, they provide a pitch-perfect image of a classroom election... With this story, young readers will be inspired to rock that vote as soon as they're given the chance.

...an inclusive, enthusiastic picture book about the power of community and of choice.