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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

EXCITING!!! My illustrations, accepted for GNSI 2026 Juried Members Exhibit! Created digitally for IF YOU LIVED IN THE SEA, WHO WOULD YOU BE? "Anglerfish Luring Prey" & "Blue Whale and Zooplankton. More art ⬇️ www.gnsi.org/2026-gnsi-ju... @juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social @weboflifebooks.bsky.social

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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Another award for IF YOU LIVED IN THE SEA, WHO WOULD YOU BE? Thank you to @thenatgen for this incredible recognition! "2026 Green Earth Book Award for Picture Book Primary - Recommended Reading." 🐬🐠🪼 Author @juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social @weboflifebooks.bsky.social #picturebook #illustration #sea

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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This is exciting! Our book, IF YOU LIVED IN THE SEA, WHO WOULD YOU BE? is on the Short List for the Green Earth Book Award! Thank you to The Nature Generation! Author @juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social Publisher @weboflifebooks.bsky.social #picturebooks #illustration #sealife #whales #octopus #coral

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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

On Monday we celebrated IF YOU LIVED IN THE SEA, WHO WOULD YOU BE?, which won 2026 John Burroughs Riverby Award. @juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social @weboflifebooks.bsky.social @icebird.bsky.social Also @nancycastaldobooks.bsky.social won this award for RIVERKEEPER and WHALES IN THE CITY! #sea #scbwi

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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

So grateful to the John Burroughs Association! IF YOU LIVED IN THE SEA, WHO WOULD YOU BE? has received The Riverby Award for "exceptional natural history books for young readers." 🌊🐋🪼🐧 Author @juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social Illustrator @megsodano.bsky.social Publisher @weboflifebooks.bsky.social

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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

There are a lot of new children's picture books at this link, including my own. Books make great holiday gifts! Check them out at SCBWI BookStop. www.scbwi.org/bookstop #kidlit #kidlitillustration #picturebooks #childrensbook #illustration #sealife #seaanimals #sea #penguin #whale #seaturtle #coral

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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

What is a Barreleye Fish? I had the same question when I started illustrating IF YOU LIVED IN THE SEA, WHO WOULD YOU BE? Here is my best explanation. #picturebookillustration #kidlitart #kidlit #picturebook #sealife #fish #marinebiology @juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social @weboflifebooks.bsky.social

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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

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 · 23/09/2025

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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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

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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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Come see me at The Open Door Bookstore on Saturday, October 4, 1-2:30 pm! I am signing copies of IF YOU LIVED IN THE SEA, WHO WOULD YOU BE? 🐬🌊 #booksigning #childrensbook #picturebook #ocean #sea #sealife #whales #penguins #fish @juliehonanjohnston @weboflifebooks

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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

IF YOU LIVED IN THE SEA, WHO WOULD YOU BE? Coming 9/23. Pre-order now! "Learn about a wide variety of beloved and obscure sea creatures and the lives they live beneath the spray." Author @juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social Publisher @weboflifebooks.bsky.social #childrensbooks #whales #octopus #penguins

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

My nieces sent me a handwritten note and a dandelion! My heart is melting. Thank you, girls, I love it! I will put it up on my studio wall. #picturebookillustrator #kidart #kidlitart #thankyoucard #movation

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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Bookmarks ☑️ Postcards ☑️ Business cards ☑️ If You Lived in the Sea, Who Would You Be? Coming September 23. #preorder at your local bookstore or online. @weboflifebooks #sea #seacreatures #oceananimals #seaturtle #penguin #coralreef #whales #kidlitart #kitlit #picturebook #illustration

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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

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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Web of Life Children's Books @weboflifebooks.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

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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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

My illustrator copies arrived! Don't they look amazing? IF YOU LIVED IN THE SEA, WHO WOULD YOU BE? will be out Sept 23. 🐬🐠🐙🪼 Pre-order at Bookshop.org or your local bookstore. Thanks, @weboflifebooks.bsky.social & Julie Honan Johnston. #picturebook #kidlit #shark #fish #octopus #dolphin #seashore

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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

My #picturebook, IF YOU LIVED IN THE SEA, WHO WOULD YOU BE?, is swimming to bookstores on 9/23/25! Author Julie Honan Johnston. Publisher @weboflifebooks.bsky.social. So glad I can share this cover with all of you! 🐋🐠🦀🐧🐙🐙🪼 #oceananimals #sealife #marinebiology #kitlit #kidlitart #digitalillustration

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Katy Farber @katyfarber.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I know the world is on fire, but here is the cover for THE BOARD, about a single mom taking on a corrupt, narcissistic leader and school board under his thumb in a small New England town. Publishes 9/9 2025 w @blackstonepub.bsky.social. What do you think of the cover, #booksky?

The words THE BOARD are written in red over stairs leading up to a school building. A woman runs up the stairs toward the building. Leaves, birds, and trees are in the air above her.

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Jo Renfro - Peg’s Egg coming in February 2026 @jorenfro.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Hello one and all! Did you know…a FREE and EASY way to support authors and illustrators is to request their books from your local library! Did I mention…FREE 🤓. #kidlitart #kidlit #libraryrequests

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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Here are the indoor and outdoor activities at #ThacherPark in March: Making #bluebird boxes, #watercolor #painting classes, the Annual #Nature #Art Show, #fossils, #scavengerhunt, and more!

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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

It's been a while since I worked with soft #pastels. Here we go! This is Callie, a white boxer. #petportrait #dogportrait

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Kari Percival @karipercival.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

You're invited to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art for Special Storytime: Kari Percival February 23, 2025 at 2 pm Join us to hear me read my new book and to learn how to help local #frogs, #toads and #salamanders. #carlemuseum #storytime #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebookart

The Eric Carle Museum of Picturebook Art Special Storytime: Kari Percival, February 23, 2025, at 2 PM. An illustration from the book SAFE CROSSING shows wood frogs, spring peepers and salamanders crossing a road on a rainy night in spring, spotlit by the flashlight beams of volunteer citizen scientists who help protect their populations.

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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Things you didn't know about rabbits... We saw blue rabbit pee in our backyard. Yes, blue! Apparently, a rabbit's pee will turn from yellow to blue after the rabbit has eaten buckthorn bark and twigs. There is a phytochemical in the buckthorn that turns the urine blue when sunlight hits it.

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Ellie Arscott @elliearscott.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It’s The Warmest Blanket in the World’s Book Birthday today! 📚🎂!!!! Illustrated by me, written by Tamara Levine and published by @secondstory.bsky.social ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ #kidlitart #kidlit #cankidlit @picturebookseh.bsky.social #canscaip #scbwi

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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Happy to note that the New York Times bowed to overwhelming public pressure and changed its erroneous nutria photo to a proper beaver! Now it just has to hold the line on the Gulf of Mexico.

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Meg Sodano @megsodano.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

My dog told me to start posting on Bluesky. So here I am!

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