B is for Bella Saves the Beach

The third book in my Bella and Britt Series is titled Bella Saves the Beach, published by Guardian Angel Publishing.  It will be out later this spring. I wrote the book after seeing so much beach trash thrown on Clearwater Beach, Florida where my family and I have a condo. 

My morning walks are usually busy.  Instead of simply walking and enjoying the beautiful gulf, the birds and breezes, I'm collecting trash, much of it ready to be carried away by the surf.

Now I'm not alone in this endeavor.  My friend, Renate, goes on the same mission each morning, and many times tourists join us as well.

But our picking up beach trash is not the answer.  The answer lies in education. 


 We need to educate our children about their ability to help save their planet.  We need to educate them to respect the animals that share this planet with us.  And we need to educate them to realize they will someday inherit the world we leave them.

B is for beach.  Oh, so important.

July 4th Beach Trash Float in California

As a prelude to Bella Saves the Beach, which will be launched very soon, here is an interesting treatise on beach trash. 

The most popular float at this year's Huntington Beach's Fourth of July Parade is likely to be the one made out of trash. It may not smell very good, either.

Andre Faubert, a Huntington, CA resident and volunteer for the Surfrider Foundation, spent a month earlier this year gathering trash for one hour a day along the city's shoreline. By the time he finished, he had more than 580 pounds of refuse, including bottle caps, plastic bags and Styrofoam.

Now, with the help of a student and an alum from the Laguna College of Art & Design, Faubert is turning his discoveries into sculpture. The finished piece will look, from a distance, like a crashing wave, with a curving blue base and white foam at the end of the curl. It may take a closer look to realize that those colors come from pieces of trash sewn and stapled together.

It was dirty work, to say the least, and graduate student Hannah Cosner said the stench proved overwhelming at times. Still, she said, the artists intended to jolt onlookers with the piece, which Farmers & Merchants Bank sponsored for the parade. "It should be really gross," she told the Huntington Beach Independent. "But that's why we tried to make it beautiful. People will see it from a distance, and then they'll come up."

One Pelican at a Time now No. 2 on Amazon's Hot New Releases in Children's Books!

One Pelican at a Time has just been ranked Number 2 in sales on Amazon's Hot New Releases in Children's Books.

I want to thank Amazon and everyone who has supported Britt, Bella, Pelican and me through our journey to help make the world a better place for new generations of kids!

And to let you know that the girls will be back soon to try and save a nest of sea turtles and to spearhead an effort to rid their favorite beach of trash in Sea Turtle Summer and Bella and Britt Save the Beach.

Link:  http://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases/books/301804/ref=zg_bs_tab

One Pelican at a Time is now available through http://www.amazon.com/, http://www.barnesandnoble.com/, http://www.indiebound.org/ and http://www.guardianangelpublishing.com/.  It will soon be available in museum shops, aquaria and other book venues within the US.