Who likes to do a puzzle? If you do, here’s a quick and easy one to do right now! Enjoy this fun puzzle of the cover of my children’s book, Bison Blog: An Erutuf National Park Novel! Let me know if I should make one of Turtle Tube too! Happy puzzling! 🙂
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Books for Maui is a bookish auction to raise funds for the Maui wildfire relief efforts. On Tuesday, August 8th, a wildfire swept through Lāhainā on the Island of Maui, Hawaiʻi. It quickly consumed hundreds of structures and destroyed families. The full impact, devastation, and loss of life are yet to be understood. To help, the book community has organized an auction. This book auction will benefit: 💛 Hawaii Community Foundation – Maui Strong: @HawaiiCommunityFoundation💛 Kamehameha – Ho’ōla Maui: @kamehamehamaui💛 Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement – Kāko’o Maui: @HawaiianCouncil💛 Maui Food Bank: @mauifoodbank Please check out this auction. You can even bid to win a signed copy of TURTLE TUBE: AN ERUTUF NATIONAL PARK, plus a bookmark and sticker! The auction begins at 6 AM HST/Noon EST Monday, 8/21, and ends at midnight HST on Friday, 8/25. There are tons of great books to bid on. And there are not only books—even manuscript critiques from award-winning authors. With so many options, surely there is something to bid on while supporting a great cause. Link to bid on TURTLE TUBE: https://www.32auctions.com/organizations/111641/auctions/148492/auction_items/4734495 Link to check out over 950 items: https://www.32auctions.com/BooksforMaui
Who wants to guess the title or the main animal for the next Erutuf National Park book? Comment below with your guesses! Happy 2nd book birthday today to the first book in the series, Turtle Tube! 🐢❤️ Book 2 will be coming soon! 📚
Check out this awesome video about Turtle Tube: An Erutuf National Park Novel made by author and illustrator, Carli Valentine: Carli has authored and illustrated some sweet children’s books that you can find online. You can find other great reviews and videos by Carli by clicking here. Thank you so much to Carli for her creative video about Turtle Tube: An Erutuf National Park Novel and sweet review of it!
The theme for today in this year’s national park week focuses on inspiration. The national park system definitely contains a lot of sources for inspiration from the people to the landscapes to the wildlife to the history and so on! The national parks can also inspire creativity. National parks have inspired artistic expression and creativity for many, many years. The national parks have definitely inspired me! Our national parks inspired me to write children’s book set in a national park. I created a magical national park, Erutuf National Park, as the setting for my children’s book series. The first book in the series is Turtle Tube: An Erutuf National Park Novel. It’s not a real national park, but an idealistic and magical one. How have the national parks inspired you? Happy National Park Week!
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Happy National Puppy Day! 🐶 Enjoy a couple photos of Evie as a puppy to start your day off with a smile! ❤️ Enjoy a day filled with puppies all over online! 🙂
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As 2022 comes to a close, I am so very grateful for many things! I really appreciate your support for my writing and book and also really appreciate you following this blog. Thank you! Happy New Year! Cheers to finding your magic in 2023!
“Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. It brings together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular,” as stated on the American Library’s Association (ALA)’s website. Here is the list of the top 10 most challenged and banned books of 2021 and the reasons cited for censoring the books: To celebrate this week, add these books to reading your list! As the theme of this week says, “Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us.”
Happy National Read a Book Day! Grab a book and enjoy a few moments of escape, magic, and adventure! Cheers to Read a Book Day! 📚
As Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “In wilderness is the preservation of the world.” Happy National Wildlife Day!
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