Amy Farris
@amylizfs.bsky.social
Voice actor and picture book enthusiast, I'm on a mission to ID "read-aloud-ability"--those enigmatic elements that make picture books entertaining for both the narrator and the audience. 🔗 HearMeOutReviews.Substack.com 🔗 VoiceOfAmy.com
DELEGATE FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM: I’d like to propose that we continue refusing to clarify whether a “Big Kid 4” is larger or smaller than a “Little Kid 13.” CHAIRPERSON: Excellent suggestion.
Transcript from the Annual Meeting of the Global Children’s Shoe-Sizing Consortium
“Welcome, delegates. Before we begin, I’d like to congratulate everyone on another successful year of making children’s shoe sizing completely incomprehensib...
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You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.
/disagree He could put a franchise in the middle of a food desert and probably still manage to bankrupt it.
Snarkwing Duck@thesnarkwingduck.bsky.social · 2w agoThe only arch any Trump was ever qualified to build. #🍔🙏❤️
You wanna be dignified? Dust off your bad poetry and head to an open mic night at your local pretentious cafe. This space is strictly for silly.
Read Aloud Elementary: Onomatopoeia, Part 2
Picture book narration tips to engage your audience and embrace your inner goofball
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“Class 201 is shouting state capitals. Class 202 is playing the drums, but Class 203 is silent.” Anyone who has spent time around a young child knows that silence means either something very bad or very good just happened, and now you’re desperate to find out which it is.
First Words for the Week: “Story Rug”
A picture book about an elementary classroom perfect for back-to-school time
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please don’t post spoilers for a movie based on a 3000 year old book
Choose your children's reading material wisely!
Cartoonists Are The Only Real Journalists Left In The USA.
Coupled with wide margins and the fine art of writing in really big longhand to cover as much real estate as possible.
Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ.@activateamymode.bsky.social · 2mo agoKids today have lost the fine art of bullshitting a 10 page paper from a single Funk & Wagnalls entry or from reading only the CliffsNotes. 🤣
The thing that always strikes me about the 4th of July is that we don’t mark the birth of the country on the day they won the war we mark it on the day they wrote down the idea.
As John Lewis reminded us, “Democracy is not a state. It is an act.” Freedom isn’t guaranteed. It depends on ordinary people who are willing to participate, speak out, and stand up for one another. It has to be protected, defended, and passed on.
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Also, I hear there are some soccer games on. Good opportunity to celebrate how America is capable of welcoming and embracing cultures from around the world.
Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat’s an American patriot to do this July 4th? I recommend: Ignore Do___d Tr__p. Read the Declaration, Jefferson’s June 24, 1826 letter to Weightman, and Lincoln. Enjoy family cookouts, neighborhood gatherings, and civic parades. Above all: Do whatever you want. It’s a free country.
America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
I thought this was going to be about grocery prices. I was not prepared for the existential angst of examining my daughter's fleeting childhood.
HAD@havehashad.com · 3mo ago"...and now I’m remembering that time you cried in the middle of the Giant Supermarket because there was, in fact, no giant there, and I pushed you past my then-therapist, who was interested in meeting you..." amazing long sentence from Chloe Yelena Miller!! https://www.havehashad.com/5a2v4
