Web of Life Children's Books
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Web of Life Children’s Books publishes timeless picture books introducing children to the wonders of nature. For more information, visit: weboflifebooks.com
Congratulations to the winners of the Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12! @CBCBook @NSTA #OSTB2026
MUD TO THE RESCUE! HOW ANIMALS USE MUD TO THRIVE AND SURVIVE by @tanyakonerman.bsky.social @greatdoglit.bsky.social
MUD TO THE RESCUE! HOW ANIMALS USE MUD TO THRIVE AND SURVIVE by @tanyakonerman.bsky.social @greatdoglit.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Congratulations to the winners of the Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12! @CBCBook @NSTA #OSTB2026
MUD TO THE RESCUE! HOW ANIMALS USE MUD TO THRIVE AND SURVIVE by @tanyakonerman.bsky.social @greatdoglit.bsky.social
MUD TO THE RESCUE! HOW ANIMALS USE MUD TO THRIVE AND SURVIVE by @tanyakonerman.bsky.social @greatdoglit.bsky.social
We are happy to announce that MUD TO THE RESCUE! HOW ANIMALS USE MUD TO THRIVE AND SURVIVE has been named an "Outstanding Science Trade Book" by the NSTA and CBC! Congrats author @tanyakonerman.bsky.social and illus Melanie Cataldo! bit.ly/2AKtZIr @CBCBook @NSTA #OSTB2026 @greatdoglit.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We are happy to announce that MUD TO THE RESCUE! HOW ANIMALS USE MUD TO THRIVE AND SURVIVE has been named an "Outstanding Science Trade Book" by the NSTA and CBC! Congrats author @tanyakonerman.bsky.social and illus Melanie Cataldo! bit.ly/2AKtZIr @CBCBook @NSTA #OSTB2026 @greatdoglit.bsky.social
It's so thrilling that three of our books have been named EUREKA! Book Award Winners for excellence in nonfiction. Thank you California Reading Association for recognizing the merit of these titles! @tanyakonerman.bsky.social @icebird.bsky.social @greatdoglit.bsky.social @susanschulman.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It's so thrilling that three of our books have been named EUREKA! Book Award Winners for excellence in nonfiction. Thank you California Reading Association for recognizing the merit of these titles! @tanyakonerman.bsky.social @icebird.bsky.social @greatdoglit.bsky.social @susanschulman.bsky.social
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
"An accessible and eye-opening introduction to the marvels of marine life.” #kirkus #kirkusReviews
@juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social @megsodano.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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
"An accessible and eye-opening introduction to the marvels of marine life.” #kirkus #kirkusReviews
@juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social @megsodano.bsky.social
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!
October 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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!
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
October 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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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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
October 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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
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!
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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).
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September 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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!
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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
August 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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
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!
September 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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!
We are so thrilled to be publishing this book! It is truly stunning! Congratulations!
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
#kidlitartist #kidlit #childrensbooks #picturebooks #ocean #sealife #turtle #fish #seals
@juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social @weboflifebooks.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We are so thrilled to be publishing this book! It is truly stunning! Congratulations!
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
September 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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
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
July 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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
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!
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
@weboflifebooks.bsky.social @juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social
#picturebooks #illustrator #kidlitart #kidlit #octopus #seaotters
July 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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!
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
@icebird.bsky.social @susanschulman.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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
@icebird.bsky.social @susanschulman.bsky.social
Today is #InternationalMudDay! Who would have thought there would be such a day? Well, we're glad there is!
@tanyakonerman.bsky.social
@tanyakonerman.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Today is #InternationalMudDay! Who would have thought there would be such a day? Well, we're glad there is!
@tanyakonerman.bsky.social
@tanyakonerman.bsky.social
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."
June 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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."
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.”
"...a fully immersive and engaging experience that will captivate young readers.”
June 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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.”
"...a fully immersive and engaging experience that will captivate young readers.”
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
June 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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
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
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
June 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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
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
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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June 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Behind the Scenes: "Organizing Facts for the Audience and Current Market" by Tanya Konerman bethandersonwriter.com/2025/05/30/b...
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!
May 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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!
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.
May 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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.
#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.
May 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
#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.
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
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#booktraileroftheday
@tanyakonerman.bsky.social @greatdoglit.bsky.social @shelf-awareness.com
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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
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May 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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...
#booktraileroftheday
@tanyakonerman.bsky.social @greatdoglit.bsky.social @shelf-awareness.com
www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...