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"""The mayor told us about crazy laws,"" Dane said, including the one forbidding snowball throwing. ""So, I wanted to do something about it."" A law in Severance, Colorado contains wording that makes it illegal to throw snowballs. Can you imagine not being able to throw snowballs? Let alone in Colorado, where is snows five months out of the year? That was the case until 9 year old Dane Best decided to make a change. Needless to say, overturning an almost 100 year old snowball ban was no easy task. Where do you even begin? Who would listen to a nine year old? Despite all odds, Dane Best was able to make history. This book is the real life true story of what can happen when someone decides to stand up for what they believe in."

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"""Frieman tells the remarkable true tale of a nine year old boy that proves that no one can be too small, or too young to have his voice heard."" - Danny Brassell, Ph.D., Author, Speaker, and world renowned literacy advocate. ""The night Dane Best went to the Severance Board of Trustees, he was surrounded by reporters, cameras and big smiles -- getting the type of coverage that most politicians spend their careers chasing. In this book, Frieman takes us through the adorably true story of Dane's journey to reverse a ban on fun."" - Sara Knuth, The Greeley Tribune."

Frieman tells the remarkable true tale of a nine year old boy that proves that no one can be too small, or too young to have his voice heard. - Danny Brassell, Ph.D., Author, Speaker, and world renowned literacy advocate. The night Dane Best went to the Severance Board of Trustees, he was surrounded by reporters, cameras and big smiles -- getting the type of coverage that most politicians spend their careers chasing. In this book, Frieman takes us through the adorably true story of Dane's journey to reverse a ban on fun. - Sara Knuth, The Greeley Tribune.

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"Richie is a best selling, multi- award winning author & illustrator with accolades that spread across writing & entrepreneurship. He has written a new middle grade fiction series, Maddy & Cole, for The Omnibus Publishing. See full press release here. St. Martin's Press calls Richie Frieman, ""A modern day Renaissance man"" - an apt description for one of the most diverse and unusual careers in a young man of 38 including a professional artist, author, illustrator, inventor, and even as an eight-year career as a professional wrestler. An author of six books, he is a best-selling and award winning author, with books spanning multi-genres. St. Martin's Press commissioned Frieman to write a book about professional etiquette in the office place. The result is, Reply All...And Other Ways to Tank Your Career which is now available worldwide, on the shelves of all major booksellers, in print, ebook, and audio formats. Reply All... debuted on September 17, 2013 and has since become an Amazon.com BEST SELLER, reaching #1 in three different categories; #1 in Business Etiquette (its main market), #1 in Business Lifestyle and #1 Self-Help & Psychology Humor (even surpassing ""Dilbert"", ""Anchorman"", ""Diary of A Wimpy Kid"" and ""The Last Lecture""). Interestingly enough, he's actually one of the - if not the - youngest person in the manners and etiquette book categories to become a best seller. His 2012 children's picture book, Terple - Always Dream bigger, is the 2012 winner of the Gellett Burgess Award for Best Poetry and Rhyme book, as well as winning the 2012 Children's Literary Classics for Best First Picture Book/Early Reader. He's appeared live on numerous radio and TV shows, including MSBNC and FOX News Entertainment. His advice has been featured in Time Magazine, Money Magazine, Forbes Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur Magazine, Huffington Post, Fast Company, USA Today, Fox Business News, FHM, Publishers Weekly, Parade, Sharp Magazine, Shape Magazine, MO.com, HOW, The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore's Child, Patch.com, The MRKETPlace, The Daily Journal, Baltimore Examiner, just to name a few. For more on Richie, visit www.richiefrieman.com. Richie is a best selling, multi- award winning author & illustrator with accolades that spread across writing & entrepreneurship. He has written a new middle grade fiction series, Maddy & Cole, for The Omnibus Publishing. See full press release here. St. Martin's Press calls Richie Frieman, ""A modern day Renaissance man"" - an apt description for one of the most diverse and unusual careers in a young man of 38 including a professional artist, author, illustrator, inventor, and even as an eight-year career as a professional wrestler. An author of six books, he is a best-selling and award winning author, with books spanning multi-genres. St. Martin's Press commissioned Frieman to write a book about professional etiquette in the office place. The result is, Reply All...And Other Ways to Tank Your Career which is now available worldwide, on the shelves of all major booksellers, in print, ebook, and audio formats. Reply All... debuted on September 17, 2013 and has since become an Amazon.com BEST SELLER, reaching #1 in three different categories; #1 in Business Etiquette (its main market), #1 in Business Lifestyle and #1 Self-Help & Psychology Humor (even surpassing ""Dilbert"", ""Anchorman"", ""Diary of A Wimpy Kid"" and ""The Last Lecture""). Interestingly enough, he's actually one of the - if not the - youngest person in the manners and etiquette book categories to become a best seller. His 2012 children's picture book, Terple - Always Dream bigger, is the 2012 winner of the Gellett Burgess Award for Best Poetry and Rhyme book, as well as winning the 2012 Children's Literary Classics for Best First Picture Book/Early Reader. He's appeared live on numerous radio and TV shows, including MSBNC and FOX News Entertainment. His advice has been featured in Time Magazine, Money Magazine, Forbes Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur Magazine, Huffington Post, Fast Company, USA Today, Fox Business News, FHM, Publishers Weekly, Parade, Sharp Magazine, Shape Magazine, MO.com, HOW, The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore's Child, Patch.com, The MRKETPlace, The Daily Journal, Baltimore Examiner, just to name a few. For more on Richie, visit www.richiefrieman.com."

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