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They’re all there!
The pencil sharpener,
the favorite pen, the brush!
Plus a pencil! I just found #ALLTHETHINGS
behind my desk!
#CleaningParty
Waiting for primed canvas to dry,
printing up references,
fighting the urge to make this #painting #portrait
FUCKING RIDICULOUS!
The pencil sharpener,
the favorite pen, the brush!
Plus a pencil! I just found #ALLTHETHINGS
behind my desk!
#CleaningParty
Waiting for primed canvas to dry,
printing up references,
fighting the urge to make this #painting #portrait
FUCKING RIDICULOUS!
Currently procrastinating by sharpening
ALL THE PENCILS
in the house😂
ALL THE PENCILS
in the house😂
Its a holiday gift of the
grandkids for grandma.
I already mentally
shot down these ideas
Flexing w MASSIVE muscles, like @Schwarzenegger cerca 1985.
Smoking a bong on a couch together like teenagers.
Riding a wolf into a bloody battle.
Centaurs.
I was trying to be serious.
grandkids for grandma.
I already mentally
shot down these ideas
Flexing w MASSIVE muscles, like @Schwarzenegger cerca 1985.
Smoking a bong on a couch together like teenagers.
Riding a wolf into a bloody battle.
Centaurs.
I was trying to be serious.
A thread of book awards 1/?
Book awards are great. They help bring attention to less mainstream titles, provide useful starting points for finding new books to read, give recognition to quality work of #authors and #illustrators, bring together great books on thematically, ...
Book awards are great. They help bring attention to less mainstream titles, provide useful starting points for finding new books to read, give recognition to quality work of #authors and #illustrators, bring together great books on thematically, ...
... help us discover wonderful materials to recommend to readers, fill libraries with, use in lessons. Here are a bunch of UK-based (I've avoided local and intenational) awards that are worth a look, with the list featuring awards from the genral to the specific, & covering ...
... fiction; non-fiction; graphic novels; poetry; funny and more, across all the age ranges from EYFS all the way to post-16. Again, not comprehensive or intentionally exclusive, but ones that I think are useful to be aware of if you are in the business of teaching, working ...
Just got my ARC’s for THIS IS A SEAHORSE! (@AlbertWhitman, 2020) Since people seem curious about the process of making a picture book, I figured I'd write up a THREAD breaking down the choices I made when designing the first book in this series, THIS IS A SEA COW (2019).
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First, a quick jump back in time to 2015 when I attended my first @SCBWI conference. @dsantat spoke about book design. “Form follows function.” It was a lesson that really resonated with me and I became determined to apply what I’d learned to the dummy I was working on.
2/19
2/19
That dummy would become my first published book, THIS IS A SEA COW (@AlbertWhitman, 2019).
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3/19
THREAD: READ AND SHARE/RT ONWARD, PLEASE
I know not everyone is a fan of #screentime [feh] for their #kids, but in the face of #CoronaVirus the #KidsMedia world is stepping up.
I know not everyone is a fan of #screentime [feh] for their #kids, but in the face of #CoronaVirus the #KidsMedia world is stepping up.
@bigbadboo Studio is removing the paywall for its #VOD platform @OznozKids. If you're not familiar with it, now's the time to become so, especially if your home speaks more than one language. #Oznoz has 200+ hours of #video content for #children, in 10 languages.
Podcast @wowintheworld is getting activities & resources to #teachers to send home as needed. Their #wowsheet designed by educators can be used with any #Wow episode (tinkercast.com/wowsheet). They're also offering free teacher memberships via @FirstBook (fbmarketplace.org/wow-in-the-wor…)
