Ocean and sea life
Ocean and sea life books for children with titles by Alex Bell, Lauren James, Jess McGeachin, Nicola Davies, Michael Morpurgo, Yuval Zommer, Britta Teckentrup and Ken Wilson-Max.
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Sue Lowell Gallion is an American author of picture books, board books and early readers. She has written both fiction and non-fiction titles for children, published by imprints including Simon & Schuster, Sleeping Bear Press and Holiday House.
Her picture books include the series Pug Meets Pig, illustrated by Joyce Wan, beginning with Pug Meets Pig in 2016 and followed by Pug & Pig Trick-or-Treat and Pug & Pig and Friends. She also co-writes the Tip and Tucker early reader series with Ann Ingalls, illustrated by Andre Ceolin.
Gallion has produced a sequence of non-fiction globe-shaped board books illustrated by Lisk Feng. Titles in this series include Our World: A First Book of Geography (2019), Our Seasons: The World in Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn (2021), Our Underwater World: A First Dive into Oceans, Lakes, and Rivers (2022) and Our Galaxy: A First Adventure in Space (2023). These books introduce scientific and environmental themes to younger readers in illustrated formats.
Other works include the picture book All Except Axle (2020), illustrated by Lisa Manuzak Wiley, and titles for educational lists such as Collins Big Cat.
She was awarded the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators’ Most Promising Picture Book Manuscript award in 2013. Her book Pug Meets Pig won the Missouri Library Association Building Block Award in 2018.
Ocean and sea life books for children with titles by Alex Bell, Lauren James, Jess McGeachin, Nicola Davies, Michael Morpurgo, Yuval Zommer, Britta Teckentrup and Ken Wilson-Max.
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