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Patricia Nozell

@ptnozellwrites.bsky.social

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#PB writer & reviewer https://patricianozell.com/ #SCBWI #12x12 #InkedVoices. MimiMum to Louie, Etta, & Elena. Colgate alum. Love my Two Orange Pups, family, playing in the dirt, travel, snorkeling, living life to the full. Serial mover.

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Patricia Nozell @ptnozellwrites.bsky.social · 20h

I preordered my copy today! How about you? #Thisisnotasleepybearbook @briangehrlein.bsky.social

Patricia Brown @patbrownbooks.bsky.social · 1d

It’s less than a month until Bear and Owl come into the world! If you haven’t pre-ordered this amazing book yet, what are you waiting for? 🐻🦉🥰 #ThisisNotaSleepyBearBook @briangehrlein.bsky.social

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Beth Volkmann @bethvolkmann.bsky.social · 5d

single fallen leaf
a spark of inspiration
Henri's second life

#haikuSaturday #haiku #Matisse #nature #art

(Matisse drew inspiration from nature and it is thought that some of the shapes in his scissor-paintings are reminiscent of oak leaves.)

Bur oak leaf turning from green to yellow.

Henri Matisse artwork: The Sheaf (La Gerbe) 1953. Leaf like cut out of several bright colors.

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Patricia Nozell @ptnozellwrites.bsky.social · 5d

Lovely!

Patricia Nozell @ptnozellwrites.bsky.social · 5d

Invasive species
Lurching, searching for a snack
Chomps down tender vines.
#HaikuSaturday #haiku

Iguana on top of a fence surrounded by gnawed vines

Patricia Nozell @ptnozellwrites.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you!

Patricia Nozell @ptnozellwrites.bsky.social · 12d

Please like and share this
Post - a kinder, gentler way
To interact.
#HaikuSaturday #haiku

Sign on a telephone pole, “please like and share this post.”

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Patricia Nozell @ptnozellwrites.bsky.social · 18d

I’m not a teacher or librarian, but heads up to both for this terrific opportunity!

Lynn Baldwin @lynnbaldwinwrites.bsky.social · 19d

Teachers & Librarians! I am giving away one copy of my just-released PB, My Backyard Used to Be, to one U.S.-based teacher or librarian who likes & reposts this by October 1. #kidlit #Edusky #SchoolLibrarian. Themes: history, stewardship, outdoor play.

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Patricia Nozell @ptnozellwrites.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you!

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Harold Underdown @hunderdown.bsky.social · 19d

"A cottage of one's own":

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

‘A cottage of one’s own’: Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published

A chance discovery at a country house revealed the three funny – sometimes surreal – interlinked tales, written almost a decade before Woolf’s first book was published

www.theguardian.com

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Patricia Nozell @ptnozellwrites.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks for the heads up!

Patricia Nozell @ptnozellwrites.bsky.social · 19d

Ah, those precious last sips of summer! Lovely!

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Patricia Nozell @ptnozellwrites.bsky.social · 19d

From a walk earlier this week along the Potomac River in Alexandria, VA:

A haze hangs over
Washington on otherwise
Shining bright morning
#HaikuSaturday #haiku

Potomac River looking north towards Washington, DC

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Picture Book Summit @picturebooksummit.bsky.social · 19d

🚨GIVEAWAY🚨⁠
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It's the last day to get your #PBSummit ticket AND be entered to win a critique from Emma Walton Hamilton! ⁠
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www.picturebooksummi...⁠

Grab your ticket now to be eligible for this priceless prize. See you online on 10/4!

#amwriting #amreading #picturebook #kidlit #booksky

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Patricia Nozell @ptnozellwrites.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you!

Patricia Nozell @ptnozellwrites.bsky.social · 25d

So true. I read it long before 1984 as well.

Patricia Nozell @ptnozellwrites.bsky.social · 26d

Nineteen eighty-four
Once an imagined future
Now reality
#HaikuSaturday #haiku

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Patricia Nozell @ptnozellwrites.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thank you!

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Susan (Morhar) Andrews @andrewssusanm.bsky.social · Sep 6

#HaikuSaturday #haiku
5/7/5:
a calico cat
stalks a mouse in a cornfield--
a whisker from fall

short form:
twilight game
of cat and mouse--
rustling corn stalks

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