Terri Libenson, JUST JAIME
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Cartoonist and author Terri Libenson joins Zibby to discuss her latest middle-grade novel, Just Jaime, which was selected for The Washington Post KidsPost Summer Book Club. Terri and Zibby talk about their experiences of excluding and being excluded by friends in middle school, as well as how our painful and embarrassing childhood memories are actually important to discuss. Terri also shares the story of how she became a syndicated cartoonist which ultimately led to her to creating the Emmie & Friends series. Join the KidsPost Summer Book Club here: https://bit.ly/3vGgaBy
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, |
| 0:12.2 | which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology. |
| 0:16.8 | All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research. |
| 0:20.4 | And I'm the editor-in-chief of |
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| 0:26.8 | So please send your personal essays there. And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on |
| 0:31.2 | Instagram at Zibby Owens and my website is Zibby Owens.com. Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:39.9 | Listeners, if you enjoy this podcast, I promise you will love my new audiobook for moms don't have time to a quarantine |
| 0:45.4 | anthology. It's not about the quarantine, but a lot of the essays were written during that time |
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| 1:02.4 | All those authors have been on this very podcast. |
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| 1:19.2 | podcasts. I hope you enjoy. I'm really excited to present this episode with Terry Leibenson, the author of |
| 1:24.8 | Just Jamie, because it's part of the Washington Post's Kids Post |
| 1:29.1 | Summer Book Club, which I already did one episode about, and I'm really excited about that. |
| 1:35.3 | And now this is the second in the series. And if you haven't checked out the Washington Post, |
| 1:40.0 | Kids Post, in general, you definitely should, and especially you can still join their summer |
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