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Joy Reed Eggerichs

Literary agent and founder of Punchline Agency; author of "Get to the Publishing Punchline" and "Writing with Bernard the Baguette," and daughter of "Love & Respect" author Dr. Emerson Eggerichs.

Sep 9, 2026

20:04
She was Tiny.
20:05
But one of the things I think we tried to incorporate words that were a little bit bigger than normal vocabulary for kids.
20:12
So the word necessary.
20:14
I feel like books are such a great way for parents to teach kids new vocabulary.
20:18
And so I think a lot of kids hear the words truth and kindness.
20:22
But, you know, my kids, they, you know, we live in Paris.
20:24
So it's like they see people that look all different ways and they will say loudly, oh, that person, you know, looks this way.

7 MINS LATER

27:24
And if it senses that your tone is raging, angry – mad not kind then it writes off it filters everything you're about to say through this lens and that's what you address here the importance of like kids at an early age knowing you might be telling somebody what's true like you're like the tiny i think wasn't a great artist or the way she colored right and the kids just like blurts out you know how much her art's not beautiful but it's like wait think about how you're saying this to her and could you say that in an encouraging way could you communicate that same truth so i think that's a huge

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