For kids and adults - this is an AMAZING book! It's a nonfiction picture book that tells how the oceans developed from when the earth was a hot ball of rock until today. It is done in rhyme and the illustrations are stunning. I learned so much! I had never heard of the creature on the front
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Last year's #PictureBookSummit was AMAZING One helpful session was about cutting the words in your manuscript by 10% by @emmawaltonhamilton.bsky.social Walton Hamilton. I also LOVED @vashtiharrison.bsky.social 's presentation. Check it out here: picturebooksummit.com @picturebooksummit.bsky.social
Check out the #PictureBookSummit It happens in October but early bird registration is SOON! Check it out! picturebooksummit.com/2026-reveal-...
Check out Underwood Ink for great writing ideas and support! I did! deborahunderwood.substack.com?r=2vi844&utm...
I subscribed to Vivian Kirkfield's substack. She is an amazing writer and support for picture book writers. She runs #50preciouswords each year! viviankirkfield.substack.com?r=2vi844&utm...
Joyce P. Uglow Storied Ink is a great Substack to follow!Join me there! jpuglow.substack.com?r=2vi844&utm...
libraries. If you are somewhere else in Nova Scotia, you can request it with an Interlibrary loan. Jennifer Berne is the author and Amanda Hall is the illustrator. #kidlit #picturebook #ocean #sea #nonfiction @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social
Check out this great blog post about the kinds of board books you can write!
@robincurrie.bsky.social on #RateYourStory #BookLove #MarchOn #MentorTexts www.rateyourstory.org/post/mowmt-2...
I saw Melissa Mwai, MLIS resource: 5+ Tips to Springboard Your Creativity on @jpuglow.bsky.social Substack and I was hooked! Check her out! melissamwaiscreativelife.substack.com?r=2vi844&utm...
cover before (ancestor of the trilobite). It is an Anomalocaris. The back matter included a fold out four page presentation of the earth in the different eons. I have never seen anything like it! It is at the @hfxpublib.bsky.social as well as Middleton, Sydney, Tatamagouche and Lunenburg
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