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“So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

I think if I were to describe today's early morning sunrise with a few powerful, persuasive words...

Appealing
Abundant
Amazing

Care to add a few memorable, descriptive snippets?

I am blessed to look up and see this generous cloud cover for a November sunrise.

Photo for Skywatch Friday and an opportunity for you to see skies from all over the world.

Happy weekend to all!

“You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me." C. S. Lewis

Review: How To Write and Illustrate Children's Books and Get Them Published

This is a helpful guide for those interested in children's illustration. There's some publishing information to help get you started. Plus, there's a section on classic children's fiction, along with all the various types of picture books. The technique and production of making a book is quite informative, too. I discovered some valuable tips on getting to know your reader, choosing the right words and using your imagination in combining pictures with interpreting the text. This book was published in the 80s and it's a bit outdated in today's publishing world but I found some treasures here in telling a story with pictures to be quite helpful. 4/5 stars.

How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books and Get Them Published

Friday 56

"Illustrations can have human or animal characters: be set in city, town or country, today, last century, in nursery-rhyme land or middle-European "folk-tale" land, and range in treatment from ultra-simplified outlines (such as Virginia Lee Burton) to highly elaborate realism or detailed fantasy (Edna Miller)."

How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books and Get Them Published