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<v Speaker 1>You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on DEMW from

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<v Speaker 1>KFI AM sixty with.

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<v Speaker 2>Mo Kelly one five.

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<v Speaker 3>Sixty.

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<v Speaker 2>Hello There, Sunshine. It's the first ever picture book from

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<v Speaker 2>the New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award winning

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<v Speaker 2>host of the kid's YouTube original series tab Time. Of course,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm talking about Tabitha Brown.

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<v Speaker 4>Can I tell you something that's on my mind? I

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<v Speaker 4>can very good when we listen to our friends. We

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<v Speaker 4>can learn new things, like I just learned that my

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<v Speaker 4>friend Ivy is a fruit and not a vegetable.

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<v Speaker 5>It's tab Can I ask you a question?

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<v Speaker 3>You can ask me anything.

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<v Speaker 2>Are you a fruit or vegetable?

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<v Speaker 3>Ivy?

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<v Speaker 5>I am a person, a person that doesn't sound like

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<v Speaker 5>a broccoli or a blueberry. Is that why you don't

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<v Speaker 5>have a pit like mine that can do this?

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<v Speaker 3>It sure is, and thank you for asking.

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<v Speaker 5>We're both pretty good listeners, aren't we miss Tabit?

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<v Speaker 3>Yes we are.

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<v Speaker 2>Hello There, Sunshine follows young Tabitha, who wakes up ready

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<v Speaker 2>to greet the sun, but gets a little worried when

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<v Speaker 2>she realizes it's missing. From there, Tabitha embarks on an

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<v Speaker 2>adventure through her own neighborhood, asking everyone if they've seen

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<v Speaker 2>the sun. Hello. Their Sunshine is available everywhere beginning Tuesday,

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<v Speaker 2>March eleventh, and its author Tabitha Brown joins me right

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<v Speaker 2>now on the show.

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<v Speaker 4>Ms.

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<v Speaker 2>Brown is nice to speak to you this evening. How

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<v Speaker 2>are you.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm doing good, honey, how are you?

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<v Speaker 2>I am wonderful When I see you in your various

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<v Speaker 2>forms of work, I'm reminded of the many personal and

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<v Speaker 2>professional struggles you've endured to get to this point. You

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<v Speaker 2>wear many hats and use all sorts of talents and skills.

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<v Speaker 2>What do you enjoy most? Acting, stand up comedy, writing,

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<v Speaker 2>culinary arts, clothing design, motherhood, maybe something else?

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<v Speaker 3>You know what? I think I enjoy just being myself

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<v Speaker 3>the most right. I think that's the biggest thing, Like

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<v Speaker 3>being a wife, being a mom, being a daughter, like

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<v Speaker 3>those are. That's what makes me who I am, being

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<v Speaker 3>a woman, and then I get to do all the

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<v Speaker 3>other things. That's the bonus.

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<v Speaker 2>Talk to me about writing for children. Yes, we were

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<v Speaker 2>all children once upon a time, some of us even

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<v Speaker 2>became parents, But I would argue that communicating with them,

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<v Speaker 2>writing for them is a special gift. What is it

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<v Speaker 2>you do or use in creating this connection with children?

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<v Speaker 2>In a media space.

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<v Speaker 3>You know what. I love children. Of course I'm a

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<v Speaker 3>mama and I work with children, you know, with my

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<v Speaker 3>children show tab time and writing for children. I think

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<v Speaker 3>the biggest lesson is listening to children, but also going

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<v Speaker 3>back into your own childhood in the childlike mindset and

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<v Speaker 3>feelings inside. And so this book is all about my

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<v Speaker 3>real childhood and my experience with my mama because she

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<v Speaker 3>also listened to me, but she would also talk to me,

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<v Speaker 3>and so I wanted to share that in book form.

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<v Speaker 3>With just teaching children how they have light inside of them,

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<v Speaker 3>which is like a superpower, right, we can transform someone's day,

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<v Speaker 3>including our own. So taking that very simple technique of

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<v Speaker 3>talking to children in a way that they understand, and

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<v Speaker 3>we put that on paper. So still just telling the story.

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<v Speaker 2>Hello, Their Sunshine available March eleventh. The sun has gone

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<v Speaker 2>missing and young Tabitha sets out to find it. Take

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<v Speaker 2>it from there.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, so this is based on my childhood. In my

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<v Speaker 3>hometown in North Carolina and e North Carolina, there was

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<v Speaker 3>a little neighborhood I lived in called River Being And

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<v Speaker 3>so I wake up one morning I don't see the

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<v Speaker 3>sun shining outside, and so I think, what's going to

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<v Speaker 3>happen if we don't have the sun shining, it's a

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<v Speaker 3>cloudy day. And I go on this journey to find

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<v Speaker 3>the sun. And I'm in my neighborhood. I'm helping my neighbors,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm helping my friends do things, I'm playing, I'm bringing

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<v Speaker 3>joy and happiness to people in the neighborhood. But yet

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<v Speaker 3>I still never find the sun. And at the end

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<v Speaker 3>of the day, I go back to my mama and

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<v Speaker 3>I said, She asked me, did you ever find the sun?

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<v Speaker 3>And I said no, I still didn't find the sunshine today.

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<v Speaker 3>And she says, well, what do you do today? And

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<v Speaker 3>I tell her all the things that I did in

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<v Speaker 3>the neighborhood with my friends and with the neighbors, and

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<v Speaker 3>how I helped people and made people feel good and happy,

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<v Speaker 3>and she said, well, it sounds like you did find

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<v Speaker 3>the sun. And in that moment, it's a light bulb

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<v Speaker 3>moment where I realized that I am the sun. I

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<v Speaker 3>was the sunshine in people's life that day. And so

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<v Speaker 3>kindness is sunshine. Love and joy is also sunshine. And

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<v Speaker 3>being able to spread that we all have the power

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<v Speaker 3>to do so. And so that's hello, their sunshine.

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<v Speaker 2>What has working in this children's space taught you about children,

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<v Speaker 2>their minds, and their dreams. Now, this story Hello Their

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<v Speaker 2>Sunshine may be semi autobiograph, if you will, but I'm

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<v Speaker 2>quite sure you've learned something about children more generally. Right.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, absolutely, children are so much smarter than we realize.

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<v Speaker 2>Right.

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<v Speaker 3>I think that if we listen, we can always learn

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<v Speaker 3>from children. Most children, until a certain age, have no fear.

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<v Speaker 3>Fear is talk. They have big imaginations. They're big dreamers.

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<v Speaker 3>They're so curious. And I think as we get older

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<v Speaker 3>and we become adults, our fears, you know, start to

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<v Speaker 3>take over. Our imagination shrinks. We start to conform into

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<v Speaker 3>this world the people project on us and we believe it.

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<v Speaker 3>But children are not like that. They believe things that

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<v Speaker 3>are what they are. They also have a big imagination

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<v Speaker 3>to believe them to be different and even better sometimes.

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<v Speaker 3>And so I think the purity of children is the

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<v Speaker 3>most sacred thing, and to be able to learn from

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<v Speaker 3>them is an honor for me. I love learning from

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<v Speaker 3>children every day, every day.

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<v Speaker 2>My time has grown short with you, Ms Tabitha Brown.

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<v Speaker 2>But I know that since Hello Their Sunshine is going

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<v Speaker 2>to be available on March eleventh, you might be doing

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<v Speaker 2>some appearances in support of this children's book, and I

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<v Speaker 2>understand you might be in the LA area sometime soon.

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<v Speaker 2>Can you tell me about that.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, I'm gonna be That's what next Saturday. So I'll

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<v Speaker 3>be at Pierce College and it's partnering with Malik Books

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<v Speaker 3>and LAUSD So it's a big family day. We're giving

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<v Speaker 3>away a thousand books. It's a free event. I'm going

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<v Speaker 3>to do a meet and greet. Look, it is free,

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<v Speaker 3>but you still have to go online and register ticket.

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<v Speaker 3>It is free, but yeah, I hope that people come

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<v Speaker 3>out and take pictures and share some sunshine with me.

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<v Speaker 2>I gotta say, people can't see you, but I can

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<v Speaker 2>see the vibrancy, the joy, the I will say, the

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<v Speaker 2>glow that you have. Where does that enthusiasm come from?

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<v Speaker 2>For what you do? Very quickly?

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<v Speaker 3>You know what I think is God's gift right that

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<v Speaker 3>he allows me to be a joyful spirit. And honey,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm alive and I'm happy about.

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<v Speaker 2>So yeah, hello there. Sunshine is available everywhere beginning Tuesday,

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<v Speaker 2>March eleventh. Tabitha Brown has been enjoyed to talk to

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<v Speaker 2>you and follow you for quite some time. But it's

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<v Speaker 2>nice to be able to dialogue with you. I wish

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<v Speaker 2>you nothing but the best.

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<v Speaker 3>Thank you so much, bo I appreciate you, hon.

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