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Being an entrepreneur doesn't mean owning a huge corporation, having all the answers, or making piles of money. In fact, the latest book in Little Pickle Press's What Does It Mean To Be...? series, shows children that the heart of a true entrepreneur beats with courage, creativity, and curiosity. Co-authors and entrepreneurs Rana DiOrio and Emma D. Dryden take the conversation from "What for?" to "What if?" in this engaging, encouraging picture book.
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In What Does It Mean To Be An Entrepreneur?®, authors and entrepreneurs Rana DiOrio and Emma D. Dryden show children that the heart of a true entrepreneur beats with courage, creativity, and curiosity.
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When Rae witnesses an ice cream-and-doggie mishap, she s inspired to create a big-scale solution to help get dogs clean. Rae draws on her determination, resilience, and courage until she and everyone else in her community learns just what it means to be an entrepreneur."
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"Inspires young dreamers to find the courage to be doers."--Jerry Greenfield, Co-Founder, Ben & Jerry's
Being an entrepreneur means...
Following your dream
Loving to learn and being curious
Taking risks
When Rae witnesses an ice cream-and-doggie mishap, she's inspired to create a big-scale solution to help get dogs clean. Rae draws on her determination, resilience, and courage until she--and everyone else in her community--learns just what it means to be an entrepreneur.
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Part of the award-winning What Does It Mean to Be...? series, What Does It Mean to Be an Entrepreneur? is a marvelous introduction for children of all ages to the concept of entrepreneurship and creativity.
Being an entrepreneur means...
Following your dream
Loving to learn and being curious
Taking risks
Celebrated by Co-Founder of Ben & Jerry's, Jerry Greenfield, What Does It Mean to Be an Entrepreneur? is a book that "Inspires young dreamers to find the courage to be doers."
When Rae witnesses an ice cream-and-doggie mishap, she's inspired to create a big-scale solution to wash dogs. Rae draws on her determination, resilience, and courage until she--and everyone else in her community--learns just what it means to be an entrepreneur.
This fun approach to a sometimes complicated concept is sure to inspire budding entrepreneurs to follow their dreams. After all, being an entrepreneur takes courage, creativity, and a growth mindset
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SELL-IN • F&Gs--print and digital. Date TK • Featured in Ingram Winter 2016 catalog PUBLICITY • National publicity campaign- reviews, blog coverage, and pitch for features • F&Gs to long-lead consumer and trade publications for review • Endorsement from Guy Kawasaki (www.guykawasaki.com) SCHOOL and LIBRARY • Finished book mailing to key librarians and educators • Submit for ALA, state/child-voted, CBC and other educational awards • Lesson plans will be developed for class discussions ONLINE • Featured on LPP website and blog
About the Author
AUTHOR Rana DiOrio has written her way through life--as a student, a lawyer, an investment banker, a private equity investor, and now as an author and publisher of award-winning children's media. Her interests include practicing yoga, reading non-fiction and children's books, dreaming, helping entrepreneurs to realize their dreams, effecting positive change in the world, and, of course, being global, green, present, safe, and kind. She lives in San Francisco.AUTHOR Emma D. Dryden is the founder of drydenbks, a premier children's editorial and publishing consultancy firm which she established after twenty-five years as a highly regarded children's book editor and publisher. During the course of her career, Emma has edited over a thousand books for children and young readers and during her tenure with Atheneum and McElderry Books, many of her titles hit bestseller lists in USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, and other national publications. Books published under Emma's guidance have received numerous awards and medals, including but not limited to the Newbery Medal, Newbery Honor, and Caldecott Honor. Emma speaks regularly on craft, the digital landscape, and reinvention, and her blog "Our Stories, Ourselves" explores the intertwined themes of life and writing. She can be followed online at Twitter (@drydenbks), Facebook, and Pinterest. Emma lives in New York City.ILLUSTRATOR Ken Min will tell you he was born on an ice floe and raised by a clan of penguins who read to him every night from the works of Margret and H.A. Rey, William Joyce, and DC Comics. He'll also say that he learned to paint by throwing his food at the walls. In reality he was born in Los Angeles and studied illustration at Art Center, College of Design. He has storyboarded for various commercials and animated TV shows such as The PJs and Futurama. His illustration work has been recognized numerous times by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). In 2012, the first picture book he illustrated, Hot, Hot Roti For Dada-Ji, received the Picture Book Honor Award for Literature from the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA). These days, you will find Ken illustrating, storyboarding, writing, and dreaming up stories for children. Ken lives in Los Angeles.