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Hello, Lydia Lukidis! Welcome to Watch. Connect. Read. Thank you for taking me to the bottom of the ocean through your beautiful and lyrical poetry in Deep, Deep Down: The Secret Underwater Poetry of the Mariana Trench . Imagine you’re booktalking DEEP, DEEP DOWN: The Secret Underwater Poetry of the Mariana Trench to second graders. What do you share with them? Lydia Lukidis:  Hello, second graders!! Did you know that the Mariana Trench is the deepest part of all the oceans on the planet? I always wondered what lurked below in those icy waters, and I started my preliminary research on the internet. I found all sorts of frightening creatures that apparently inhabited the trench, like anglerfish, goblin sharks, and zombie worms. A real sea of monsters. I wrote my first draft, and included all these creatures. Six months later, I interviewed a slew of experts who have been to the trench and/or researched it for years. And then, surprise! I discovered that most of the information on the in