Everyone Gets a Say: Teaching Kids about Voting with Jill Twiss, Bestselling Author and Former Writer for "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
Peace By Peace Productions
3.1 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Our guest this week is Jill Twiss. Jill is a former writer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, where she won Emmy and Peabody awards and wrote “A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo.” She’s the author of the new children’s book about voting called “Everyone Gets a Say.”
About Everyone Gets a Say:
Don't miss this picture book about voting from the #1 New York Times bestselling team behind Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents: A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo and The Someone New.
Pudding the snail and his friends can’t seem to agree on anything. Whatever Jitterbug the chipmunk wants, Geezer the goose does not. Whatever Toast the butterfly wants, Duffles and Nudge the otters are absolutely against. And if somehow Toast and Duffles and Jitterbug and Nudge all agree on something, then Geezer is not having it.
So when Toast suggests they need a leader, the friends try to figure out the best way to pick someone to be in charge. Should that someone be the fastest? The fluffiest? The squishiest? Or can Pudding show his friends that there just might be a way where everyone gets a say?
In this follow-up to The Someone New, Jill Twiss and EG Keller cleverly underscore the importance of speaking up and using your voice.
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| 1:05.3 | Hi, I'm Alyssa Molano and this is Sorry Not Sorry. |
| 1:31.6 | My guest today is Jill Twist. |
| 1:34.1 | Jill is a former writer for last week tonight with John Oliver where she won Emmy and P-Body |
| 1:39.8 | awards and wrote a day in the life of Marlon Bundo which makes me giggle. |
| 1:47.0 | She's the author of the new children's book about voting called Everyone Get To Say. |
| 1:53.1 | Our story is about Marlon Bundo falling in love with another boy rap. |
| 1:56.5 | It's because our Marlon Bundo is gay. |
| 1:59.5 | Just like Borillo Marlon Bundo. |
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