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How to Build a Human: In Seven Evolutionary Steps
by Pamela S. Turner (Author) and John Gurche (Illustrator)
@ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

Booktalk: The epic story of human evolution in seven big steps! Find out how, when, and why did we:

1. stand up,
2. smash rocks,
3. get swelled heads,
4. take a hike,
5. invent barbecue,
6. start talking (and never shut up), and
7. become storytellers?

Snippet:
A NOTE ON RACE
The modern concept of race is relatively recent. It is tied to efforts by early European scientists and naturalists to arrange life on a religiously inspired ladder with a Christian God at the top, followed by angels, then white people, with other races just a step above monkeys and apes. These racial concepts were closely tied to a wave of European colonialism that began in the sixteenth century.

It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

You are invited to join the June 1-August 31, 2022 #kidlit Comps Summer Reading Club and read all summer long. The goal is to build a list of comps (published children’s books like yours) to use in your query when you send out your #kidlit manuscript.

Q. What is the #kidlit Comps Summer Reading Club?
A. A digital reading log in a private Facebook Group.

#kidlit Comps Summer Reading Club Rules:
1. Read one *possible* comp a week (a children’s book like yours)
2. in June, July, and August.
3. Post a book emoji 📚 with a # to record it: 📚1, 📚2, etc.
4. Build a list of comps for your query
5. by selecting the best *possible* comps🥇 at the end of each month.

Q. Do you post the book title, too?
A. No. Only post a book emoji: 📚. Book comps are a sales tool. Save this important sales information for your query letter.

Why read comps?

Book comps can help you:

Write your book
Revise your book
Sell your book

Are you ready to ready to read and write this summer? Join us!

Download the #kidlit Comps Summer Reading Club FAQ e-book on the Summer Reading page.
Click the yellow “Join group” button in the e-book.
Then click the blue Facebook “Join group” button.

Q. Can you join without downloading the e-book?
A. No. I’ve had too many friends lose control of their social media accounts to hackers, so I added this extra step as a precaution.