Or You Were One Yourself – Then You Know All About the Pressure Girls Feel

“A winning debut with this witty story of outcasts coming together... Well-drawn characters, high comedy, and an open-ended finale will leave readers eager for the next installment." — Publishers Weekly “Enchanting right up to the sequel-beckoning end. An engaging tale that helps children to understand both bullying and the difficulties faced by people who in some way deviate from the norm." — Kirkus Reviews "A heartwarming tale about friendship and belonging that will resonate with those readers who have ever struggled to fit in or find their place in the world." — School Library Journal July 2016 If there’s a girl in your life – or you were one yourself – then you know all about the pressure girls feel. You understand the pressure to fit in, to look good and, too frequently, the way girls feel the need to make themselves smaller, quieter, skinnier, less obvious, less present in the world. Where are the books, maybe you’ve wondered, that make girls feel like it’s okay to be big, to be brave, to speak up, to take up space, to yell if yelling is required, and to take control of their own destinies? As the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twelve books for adults, Jennifer Weiner has frequently addressed these issues in fiction. Now, I am delighted to send you a copy of Jen’s long-awaited debut book for children. THE LITTLEST BIGFOOT (Aladdin; 9781481470742; September 13, 2016) is a witty, magical story about three kids – two girls and one boy – who feel like outcasts, like misfits, like they don’t fit in their own skins, or in the worlds. Alice Mayfair’s been ignored by her fancy, wealthy parents, and shipped off to a series of boarding schools. With her larger body and unruly hair, she wants nothing more than to be invisible…and, maybe, find a friend. When she rescues Millie Maximus from drowning in a lake one day, her dream comes true. But Millie is a Bigfoot, and most Bigfoots believe that people— NoFurs, as they call them—are dangerous. And they can be, as the two girls learn when a league of Bigfoot hunters starts on the their trail, led by a lonely boy named Jeremy. In order to survive, Alice and Millie have to put their trust in each other—and have faith in themselves— above all else. THE LITTLEST BIGFOOT began as a story Jen told her eight-year-old daughter Phoebe…and it was overhearing Phoebe and her friends worry about shopping for swimsuits, and worry what body parts needed hiding or fixing, that prompted Jen to put on her bathing suit, snap a picture, post it on Facebook, and urge other women to #weartheswimsuit. The campaign was meant to show our girls what real women’s bodies look like, to help them become more at ease and less self-critical. The campaign caught fire, and became one of the talking points of the summer of 2016, which saw actress Leslie Jones battling racism and sexism on Twitter, and a Playboy playmate get shamed for body-shaming. This past month, Jen’s Facebook posts have reached over 2 million viewers. The campaign was featured in dozens of media outlets including “Good Morning America,” Today.com, PopSugar, SheKnows, and Time. Most importantly, women all over the world – pregnant, plus-size, new moms, cancer survivors, teenagers and grandmothers and women of all race and color, including many who said they hadn’t worn a bathing suit in years – posted their own pictures, and joined the #weartheswimsuit movement. That was for grown-ups. THE LITTLEST BIGFOOT is for girls, and boys, all the young readers who need stories where it’s kids like them who find their courage and their voice, who find friends who understand, who save the day and win a place in the world. Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of fourteen books, including Good in Bed and In Her Shoes, which was made into a motion picture. She is a contributing writer for The New York Times Opinion section. She also has her own weekly pop-culture webisode on People.com, appears regularly on GMA, and has written for Elle, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Allure, and Redbook among others. On October 14, 2016, Weiner will publish her first work of nonfiction, Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing. I look forward to discussing the possibility of a review or interview with Jennifer Weiner. Sincerely, Jodie Hockensmith, Associate Director of Publicity 212-698-1135/[email protected] About Jennifer Weiner A #1 New York Times bestselling author, Jennifer Weiner’s books have spent over five years on the New York Times bestseller list with over thirteen million copies in print in thirty-six countries. She is the author of the novels Good in Bed (2001); In Her Shoes(2002), which was turned into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine; Little Earthquakes (2004); Goodnight Nobody (2005); the short story collection The Guy Not Taken (2006); Certain Girls (2008); Best Friends Forever (2009); Fly Away Home (2010); Then Came You(2011); The Next Best Thing (2012); All Fall Down (2014), and Who Do You Love (2015). This Fall, Atria Books will publish her first work of nonfiction, Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing, and Aladdin Books will publish The Littlest Bigfoot, the first book in a middle- grade trilogy about two lonely girls – one human, one Bigfoot – and the hidden world that they come together to protect. Jennifer Weiner grew up in Connecticut and graduated with a degree in English literature from Princeton University. She worked as a newspaper reporter in central Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Philadelphia, where she wrote a series of popular columns for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Weiner is now a host of her own People magazine web series, The Pie, and Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times Op-Ed and Sunday Review. Weiner’s recent Times contributions – “The Snobs and Me,” “The Love Story Primary,” “When Can Women Stop Trying to Look Perfect?,” “The Year of the Toilet,” “Longing for the Innocence of Playboy,” “Miss America, My Guilty Pleasure,” “The Ashley Madison Hack Shows We’re Too Dumb to Cheat” “‘Hello Mother, Hello Daughter’: Texts of Misery from Camp,” "The Pressure to Look Good," “The Cost of Buying Someone’s Soul. Or Tweets,” “All Grown Up and In Charge of the Seder,” “Another Thing to Hate About Ourselves,” “Mean Girls in the Retirement Home,” and “All Blurbed Out”– have risen to the top of the “most emailed” lists and have been picked up by newspapers and media outlets across the world. Weiner’s #weartheswimsuit movement resulted with national news coverage on GMA as well as many articles supporting her body positive call to action for women to post their swimsuit selfies. With over 119,000 fans on Facebook and 130,000 followers on Twitter, Weiner was recently listed as a part of the “Twitter Brain Trust” by EW and appeared on Time magazine’s list of “140 Best Twitter Feeds,” which hailed her “must-read” live “Bachelor” tweets, noting that “rarely has there been such an ideal pairing of material and writer.” Forbes magazine ranked her second on their list of “25 Working Moms to Follow on Twitter”: “Tune in for hilarious shards of brilliance.” A recent New Yorker profile demonstrated how much influence this “unlikely feminist enforcer” has had on her culture, celebrating Weiner’s “lively public discussion about the reception and consumption of fiction written by women.” Weiner has appeared on numerous national television programs, including GMA, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, and CBS Sunday Morning, and has been published in dozens of newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Seventeen, Redbook, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and Good Housekeeping. Most of her essays are featured on her website, where she started her blog in 2002. Jennifer can also be found on Facebook, and, in real life, Philadelphia, where she lives with her family. .

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