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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you Kirkus for such a terrific review of IF YOU LIVED IN THE SEA, WHO WOULD YOU BE? www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

"An accessible and eye-opening introduction to the marvels of marine life.” #kirkus #kirkusReviews
@juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social @megsodano.bsky.social

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you Children's Literature for this terrific review of IF YOU LIVED IN THE SEA, WHO WOULD YOU BE? Congrats to @juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social and @megsodano.bsky.social for creating such a glorious book!

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · 6d

So excited to announce that MUD TO THE RESCUE! HOW ANIMALS USE MUD TO THRIVE AND SURVIVE has won a silver EUREKA! HONOR BOOK AWARD from the California Reading Association! Congratulations to author Tanya Konerman and illustrator Melanie Cataldo! @tanyakonerman.bsky.social @greatdoglit.bsky.social

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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 16d

Today's signing event = success! Thanks to Open Door Bookstore for hosting and to all the folks who attended. We sold out of both IF YOU LIVED IN THE SEA and SALAMANDER SKY! 🌊🐬 Author @juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social @weboflifebooks.bsky.social #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebook #picturebookillustrator

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you @shelf-awareness.com for posting our book trailer for IF YOU LIVED IN THE SEA, WHO WOULD YOU BE? by @juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social and @megsodano.bsky.social as your Book Trailer of the Day!

www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

Book Trailer of the Day: If You Lived in the Sea, Who Would You Be?

If You Lived in the Sea, Who Would You Be? by Julie Honan Johnston (Web of Life Children's Books).

www.shelf-awareness.com

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Tanya Konerman, Kidlit Author 📚 @tanyakonerman.bsky.social · Aug 12

It’s #WorldElephantDay! I ❤️ 🐘 so much, I have one on the cover of #MudtotheRescue. My Spirit Animal is caring, intelligent, loyal, strong…see below for ways to help them every day! #elephants #nature #kidlit #STEM #picturebooks #animals @weboflifebooks.bsky.social

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · 28d

Happy #BookBirthday to author @juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social (left) and illustrator @megsodano.bsky.social (right) for creating such a beautiful, whimsical and educational book about some of the many sea creatures with which we share the world. Congratulations!

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · 28d

We are so thrilled to be publishing this book! It is truly stunning! Congratulations!

Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 28d

TODAY is PUB DAY!!! I'm so excited that *If You Lived in the Sea, Who Would You Be?* is out! Here are my top four favorite pages from this book.

#kidlitartist #kidlit #childrensbooks #picturebooks #ocean #sealife #turtle #fish #seals
@juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social @weboflifebooks.bsky.social

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · 29d

We are thrilled that Julie Honan Johnston and Meg Sodano's book, IF YOU LIVED IN THE SEA, WHO WOULD YOU BE? will be launching this week! Please join Julie at Mrs. Dalloways Books for her book signing on Saturday, September 27 from 11:00-12:00! @juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social @megsodano.bsky.social

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · Jul 17

Thanks @publisherswkly.bsky.social for your review of IF YOU LIVED IN THE SEA, WHO WOULD YOU BE?! "This is a remarkable introduction to sealife for young readers. Fascinating peek at the creatures who populate our oceans.” @juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social @megsodano.bsky.social @icebird.bsky.social

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thank you for sharing these sketches, Meg! It's amazing the amount of work both authors and illustrators put into their work that never ends up being published in the book. The process is much more complicated than most people realize!

Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · Jul 2

These things didn't make it into IF YOU LIVED IN THE SEA: Phytoplankton (not an animal), sea otters, kelp (not an animal), different version of oyster reef, baby octopus.

@weboflifebooks.bsky.social @juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social
#picturebooks #illustrator #kidlitart #kidlit #octopus #seaotters

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thank you @skippingstones.bsky.social for giving HAWK MOTHER RETURNS by Kara Hagedorn & Marlo Garnsworthy and AT HOME WITH THE PRAIRIE DOG by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, photos by William Muñoz the Skipping Stones Honor Award for Nature & Ecology Books!

@icebird.bsky.social @susanschulman.bsky.social

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · Jun 30

Today is #InternationalMudDay! Who would have thought there would be such a day? Well, we're glad there is!

@tanyakonerman.bsky.social

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · Jun 22

Thanks MBR for this terrific review! "Original, informative, featuring a rhyming text and museum quality images, 'If You Lived in the Sea, Who Would You Be?' by author/storyteller @juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social and artist/illustrator @megsodano.bsky.social is a fun read from cover to cover."

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · Jun 16

Congrats to @tanyakonerman.bsky.social and Melanie Cataldo for this wonderful review from Publishers Weekly for MUD TO THE RESCUE! HOW ANIMALS USE MUD TO THRIVE AND SURVIVE!

"...a fully immersive and engaging experience that will captivate young readers.”

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · Jun 16

We had a fab time at the #Children'sInstitute in Portland! Debut author, Julie Honan Johnston, can be seen here getting ready to sign her book IF YOU LIVED IN THE SEA, WHO WOULD YOU BE? at the Author's Reception! @americanbookseller.bsky.social @megsodano.bsky.social @juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · Jun 8

Today is #WorldOceanDay! We must do everything we can to protect our precious oceans!

Contact these organizations to see how you can help:
The Ocean Cleanup (theoceancleanup.com)
@oceana.bsky.social
@seatree.bsky.social
Ocean Futures Society (oceanfutures.org)

@megsodano.bsky.social

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · Jun 1

Behind the Scenes: "Organizing Facts for the Audience and Current Market" by Tanya Konerman bethandersonwriter.com/2025/05/30/b...

Behind the Scenes: “Organizing Facts for the Audience and Current Market” by Tanya Konerman

Ah, the fun of mud! But how does one create a viable manuscript with this topic and a pile of information? Like a mudpie, it takes some squishing and slopping and playing around. Here’s a pos…

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · May 25

How wonderful! We are so happy! 😀

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · May 25

We are thrilled that Julie Honan Johnston will be signing her book IF YOU LIVED IN THE SEA, WHO WOULD YOU BE? illustrated by @megsodano.bsky.social at the @americanbookseller.bsky.social Children's Institute conference in Portland OR! Details below. Way to to, Julie!

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · May 22

Today is #EndangeredSpeciesDay. The effectiveness of the #EndangeredSpeciesAct is now threatened because the Trump administration has proposed changing the definition of "harm" in the law. This change would weaken the ESA by making it easier to destroy the habitats where the animals live.

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · May 20

#HappyBookBirthday! Congratulations @tanyakonerman.bsky.social and Melanie Cataldo for creating such a whimsical, fun, engaging, and interesting book about the ways animals use mud to thrive and survive! Tanya Konerman will be reading and signing books at @morgenstern.books this Saturday.

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · May 13

Thank you Self Awareness for posting MUD TO THE RESCUE! HOW ANIMALS USE MUD TO THRIVE AND SURVIVE as their Book Trailer of the Day!
#booktraileroftheday
@tanyakonerman.bsky.social @greatdoglit.bsky.social @shelf-awareness.com

www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

Book Trailer of the Day: Mud to the Rescue!

Mud to the Rescue! How Animals Use Mud to Thrive and Survive by Tanya Konerman, illustrated by Melanie Cataldo (Web of Life Children's Books

www.shelf-awareness.com

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · May 2

Here's what @KirkusReviews has to say about MUD TO THE RESCUE!
"An engaging resource for young nature enthusiasts.”

Congrats to author @tanyakonerman.bsky.social and illustrator Melanie Cataldo @greatdoglit.bsky.social

Pub Date: 5/20/25

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · Apr 27

Julie Honan Johnston author of IF YOU LIVED IN THE SEA, WHO WOULD YOU BE? holds her book for the first time at an event put on by #publishersgroupwest at #MrsDallowaysBookstore! Congratulations, Julie!

Preorder here: bookshop.org/p/books/if-y...

@megsodano.bsky.social

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