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Justice Sonia Sotomayor to Release New Children's Book Just Shine! About Being Yourself (Exclusive)
People ^ | February 13, 2025 | Stacy Lambe

Posted on 02/13/2025 10:30:14 AM PST by Baladas

Slated for release on Sept. 9, Just Shine! How to Be a Better You (Philomel Books) is a new collaboration between Sotomayor, 70, who wrote the story, and illustrator Jacqueline Alcántara.

Taking inspiration from Báez's "ability to help people recognize their own brilliance," per the publisher, the inspirational picture book "tells the story of a little girl from Puerto Rico who had the incredible ability to see the unique qualities of others and help them shine their brightest. She listened, she understood, she worked hard and she brought out the beauty in each person she met."

The aim of the book is to show "how helping others shine makes the whole world brighter," the publisher added.

"I attribute my success to my mother and all she taught me about being a good person and treating others with respect and care," Sotomayor said in a statement shared with PEOPLE.

She added, "Just Shine! How to be a Better You is the story of those lessons from my mother. I hope the children who read my book will enjoy learning about the simple ways we can help our friends shine and make the world a better place for us all."

(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...


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1 posted on 02/13/2025 10:30:14 AM PST by Baladas
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To: Baladas

Remember Melania’s BE BETTER program...Is Sonia plagerizing??


2 posted on 02/13/2025 10:32:33 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Baladas

How many book deals were actually financed by USAID? I don’t think publishing houses risk their own money on crap like this.


3 posted on 02/13/2025 10:33:12 AM PST by bakeneko
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To: Baladas

Oral arguments.


4 posted on 02/13/2025 10:33:41 AM PST by kawhill (“My poor friend, you are the absinthe drinker. It is you who have lost your moral faculty.”)
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To: Baladas

ps- yo mama can abort you anytime...


5 posted on 02/13/2025 10:33:55 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Baladas

Money laundering 101 for liberals...write a children’s story.


6 posted on 02/13/2025 10:36:24 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Baladas
So you just 'shine' kid... Like as in the movie 'The Shining'?


7 posted on 02/13/2025 10:36:43 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: bakeneko

She uses her government staff to push her books.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-sotomayor-book-sales-ethics-colleges-b2cb93493f927f995829762cb8338c02


8 posted on 02/13/2025 10:39:34 AM PST by gunnut
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To: Baladas

Single female trying to impact other’s kids because she doesn’t have any.


9 posted on 02/13/2025 10:41:17 AM PST by alternatives?
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To: Baladas

I’m glad she’s got so much time on her hands. Why doesn’t she do a broadway play while she’s at it?


10 posted on 02/13/2025 10:42:05 AM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Baladas

Ahhhh. The time honored Washington DC payoff sheme. Book deals


11 posted on 02/13/2025 10:44:07 AM PST by HP8753 (Live Free!!!! .............or don't. )
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To: Baladas

The transcriber hired by the publisher had to work with Sotomayor’s nearly illegible drafts written in 1st grader chubby crayons. But admitted Sotomayor related to children because her mind so resembled theirs.

The SCOTUS opinions she gives are dictated and has some word for word passages from Law For Dummies.

They say her opinions have the fewest references to precedents of all the sitting justices.


12 posted on 02/13/2025 10:44:33 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Baladas

Don’t Supreme Court Justices usually write books for their peers? Like law or history books?


13 posted on 02/13/2025 11:05:21 AM PST by Farmerbob
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To: Baladas

It should be very clear now

Sotomayor is telling us she is resigning soon.

She’s had health issues - and now she’s in on the oldest female political grift there is: “writing children’s books.”


14 posted on 02/13/2025 11:14:17 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Baladas
I got a heads up on some of the titles:

Abuela Gets Deported

Miguel, CBP, and Me

The Wide Latina

15 posted on 02/13/2025 12:57:15 PM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: Baladas

UnWise Latina spewing feel good stuff instead of what’s really important for kids to learn, like critical thinking and knowing adults are feeding them baloney.


16 posted on 02/13/2025 1:23:26 PM PST by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: Baladas

This is one way the far left funnels bribes to bigwigs — phony book deals.


17 posted on 02/13/2025 1:57:04 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Baladas
Why is a sitting Justice wasting her time with drivel? If she were at all worth her seat, she would write about Constitutional principles like the—ahem—men on the Court often do.
18 posted on 02/13/2025 5:04:09 PM PST by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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To: Baladas
"tells the story of a little girl from Puerto Rico who had the incredible ability to see the unique qualities of others and help them shine their brightest. She listened, she understood, she worked hard and she brought out the beauty in each person she met."

But only in her own mind. In reality she was a morbidly obese old lady with mental problems who had eaten herself into a sugar coma and was dying while all her sphincters released on the floor of her filthy government paid for apartment.

19 posted on 02/13/2025 5:09:58 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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