I am excited to announce that my new picture book, “Wildly Beautiful: Playful Art & Poetry for Kids”, is now available for sale on Amazon! This is the first full-length picture book that I have both illustrated and written, so I’m pretty proud of it!
The idea was born when I realized that I had quite a bit of kid-friendly art collages and decided I should write some fun poetry to go along with them and make it into a children’s book. The book very much has an indie, creative feel to it, and I’m proud of that. It encourages kids to try their own hand at creating art and poetry as well. The poems included cover a broad range of subjects – from the silly and humorous to more thoughtful and inspirational ideas.
I have been lucky enough to get a couple reviews already. One Amazon customer was kind enough to leave this 5 star review:
“The author gives a sense of magic to the ordinary with beautiful pictures and clever words to enchant young ones to set their own creativity free.”
And Ashley from Mental Health @ Home here on WordPress also reviewed the book here.
If you want to check out the book, it is available in paperback for $9.99 or on Kindle for $2.99. I hope you will check it out!
Maranda Russell 
Congratulations Maranda. Wonderful news. 👏👏👏
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Thanks Sadje!!!
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You’re welcome 😇
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It really is a lovely book!
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Thank you so much ♥
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Congratulations dear..great news👏👏👏
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♥♥♥
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Very cool! Congrats!
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🙂
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So cool! Congrats!
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Thank you ♥
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Congratulations, Maranda! Very impressed!!!
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Thank you!
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Congratulations. And I will be checking it out on Amazon. Fantastic.
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🙂
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Woooohooooo, that’s amazing! A huge congratulations, your efforts have paid off, you should be very proud! 🌹xx
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Thank you ♥
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Congrats!😄
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Thanks!
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You’re welcome
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Congratulations! You go girl!
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Well done Maranda, what a wonderful achievement!
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Thank you!!!
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This looks like a beautiful book. Congratulations!
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Thank you ♥
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This looks lovely❤️. 🎊 Congratulations with such a beautiful book!!!
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Thank you so much!!!
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I am sure it is delightful and will try to buy it for my young cousins ❤️
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If you do get it for them, please let me know how they like it!
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Of course I will Maranda! I have a feeling that they’ll love it!!!!
Also, how many poetry books have you published?
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I have five published books of my own with poetry in them and then poetry included in a few poetry anthologies by various publishers.
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And would you like to judge my poetry competition that ends on Tuesday?
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I am honored by the invitation. I’m not sure now is a great time though. I’m having enough trouble keeping up with my own work right now lol. I’ve been fighting a nasty virus for about a month now and ended up with bronchitis from it.
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Ohhhh! I’m sorry!
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I would love to have you judge!
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I’m very late to this party, but congrats!!
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Thanks!
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You’re welcome! Hope you’re doing well!
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