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Hey everyone! I’m helping spread the word about Bramble Berry Tales App please do check it out, share and download it if you are interested! I’ve been working on this series with the Rival Schools team as the lead artist for 2 years and recently we finished the 3rd book, The Little People. We need some help spreading the word about BBT and to do this I thought we can try doing a giveaway. I don’t take personal commissions very often and this is a good chance to win a personal commissioned piece from me! ☆Prize☆  A custom full colour commission (1 character full body/colour) from Bramble Berry Tales Artist, Betty Kwong (ME :D)! 

Rules: -Reblog this post to enter (likes don’t count)! (You can reblog more than once to increase your chances to win (max 1 reblog a day/no giveaway blogs). -You must be following me.  -Askbox must be open so I can contact you if you win.  -Feel free to send me an ask if you have any questions.  -Giveaway ends September 19th,2014 and winner has 48hrs to respond. If there isn’t an answer another winner will be drawn. 

You can increase your chances to win by entering into the twitter and facebook draw as well! (There are 3 winners in total. One on facebook, twitter and tumblr :D) Thank you everyone for your support!! 

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Creating order from chaos. The Equilbrium bookshelf from Malagana.

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How do you stay creative? In her free time, Bramble Berry Tales artist, Betty Kwong never stops creating! Here's a peek into a personal piece by Betty, a work in progress filled with fun and lively characters. 

I was gonna outline it and make it more 2dish but my mind told me to suck it up, just do it and challenge yourself and now I’m back to rendering this piece in 3d again __(:3 __ )__ why do i do this to myself. 

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Got kids? Love dinosaurs? Maybe you think Elemenopee is a letter? Get "Dinosaurs A to Z". ...a project we just completed with The Jim Henson Company, PBS Kids and Loud Crow Interactive.

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/dinosaur-train-a-to-z/id804766670?mt=8

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Some incredible concept landscapes by UK photographer Carl Warner.

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Have a Happy Holidays and see you in 2014!

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Executive Director and Producer David Lam talks Bramble Berry Tales on GlobalBC.  "A new children’s series told through a Storybook App captures the oral history of local First Nations." http://globalnews.ca/video/957392/bramble-berry-tales

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Beautiful image that tells a heartbreaking story. One can tell a lot of heart went into this piece.  Source

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Thomas discovers if you judge a book by its cover you might miss out on an amazing story.  Don't forget to check out The Great Sasquatch, out in mobile app stores now! http://bit.ly/19wRqNy

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A beautiful 3D render titled "Silent House".

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Happy Halloween from Lily and Thomas!

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This incredible and spooky illustration titled "The Pumpkin Tree" is a nice find with Halloween only a few days away.

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The Great Sasquatch has arrived! The second Bramble Berry Tales app is now available. Get it now: http://bit.ly/19wRqNy 

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The Great Sasquatch is coming... Just one more day until the big reveal from Bramble Berry Tales! 

Don't forget, the first in the series, The Story of Kalkalilh is free on the App Store for a very limited time, download now!

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To celebrate the upcoming launch of The Great Sasquatch, the first digital story app in the Bramble Berry Tales series is now FREE in the App Store! But only for a limited time. Download The Story of Kalkalilh now!

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Sneak peek of our next app, The Great Sasquatch!

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Bramble Berry Tales’ upcoming story app helps readers uncover the origins of this mythical creature Bigfoot. Yeti. Sasquatch.

They’re all common names in popular culture, yet very few people know the true story of the ape-like creature believed to inhabit the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Luckily, that’s about to change thanks to the latest Bramble Berry Tales release from Rival Schools. Available later this October, The Great Sasquatch is the second book app in a three part series (The Story of Kalkalilh was released on August 1), dedicated to the preservation of Indigenous folklore and language. It’s also one of the few narratives to fully explain the origins of the Sasquatch, or the Sasq’ets, as they’re known in the Halq’eméylem language.

A common figure in indigenous folklore Stories of a Sasquatch-like being have long been a part of Indigenous legend and lore, especially amongst the Sto:lo people. Passed down from generation to generation, the legend spans a number of cultures, regions, and peoples. But where did these mythical beings come from, and why are they so illusive? For those answers, you’ll have to wait for The Great Sasquatch release!

Bringing the legend of Sasquatch to Light The legend of the Sasquatch first surfaced outside of the Indigenous community in the 1920s, thanks to a series of Canadian newspaper articles from a prominent government official named J.W. Burns. In this series, Burns coined the term “Sasquatch,” an Anglicized version of its Halq’emeylem pronunciation: sasq’ets. Burns, who worked closely with the Indigenous populations of Western Canada, had a keen interest in the subject of these “hairy giants,” and devoted a great deal of this career to studying them. The following is a short excerpt from one of Burns’ recordings:

I am convinced that survivors of the Sasquatch do still inhabit the inaccessible interior or British Columbia. Only by sheer luck, however, is a white man likely to sight one of them because, like wild animals, they instinctively avoid all contact with civilization and in that rocky country it is impossible to track them down. I still live in hope however, of some day surprising a Sasquatch and when that happens I trust to have a camera handy.

Burns’ accounts quickly popularized the age-old legend, cementing the term “Sasquatch” in the consciousness of the residents of western Canada. Since then, additional iterations of the myth have surfaced all around the world.

What is the Sasquatch? Which brings us to the sightings.

From footprints to hidden camera footage, so-called Sasquatch hunters have reported sightings of this mythical beast from practically every corner of the globe. In 1924, for example, prospector Albert Ostman claimed to have been abducted by a Sasquatch in the mountains of British Columbia. In 1967, Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin purportedly captured the Sasquatch on film in Bluff Creek, California. And, more recently, hunter Rick Jacobs claims he captured an image of a Sasquatch in 2007 using an automatically triggered camera attached to a tree in the Allegheny National Forest.

According to information from the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) Geographical Database, Washington tops the list for most reported Bigfoot sightings (568 as of September 2013). California came in a close second with the last of some 428 sightings being reported in March of 2013. Oddly enough, Sasquatch sightings are far less common in Canada. According to the BFRO, Bigfoot has been spotted in British Columbia 125 times and 67 times in Ontario.

Is the Sasquatch really out there?

While various types of creatures have been suggested to explain both the sightings and the origins of the Sasquatch, there’s something about the legend of Sasq’ets that can’t be rationalized. Decide for yourself if there’s something magical living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Learn the origins of the Sasquatch later this October when Bramble Berry Tales 2: The Great Sasquatch is released worldwide.<ffvssss

(from publisher, LoudCrow)