Piper and the Red Boat: A tale of a lost toy boat and the adventurous little girl who found it

by Ellen Margaret O'Shea

Overview

This beautifully illustrated children’s book tells a story of little girl in love with nature who discovers a lost toy boat on a pond in a nearby park. The story also describes the journey the toy boat must take to survive several seasons on the pond. The boat develops friends with wildlife. Piper, the little girl and her family recover the boat and give it a new home. With beautiful and sometimes humorous illustrations, the author introduces different aspects of nature through 33 full color illustrations including paintings of plants, insects, butterflies, frogs, turtles, ducks, dragonflies and wildflowers. This fully author-illustrated picture book is appropriate for young readers as well as a book that parents, teachers and others can read to young children. This is a book grown-ups will love reading over and over to kids—both young and old. A great gift for any occasion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781732102309
Publisher:	Ellen M O'Shea
Publication date:	05/01/2018
Pages:	46
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.25(d)
Age Range:	2 - 7 Years

About the Author

The author, Ellen Margaret O'Shea is a naturalist, watercolorist, accomplished illustrator and has been writing and illustrating children's books since her youth. She currently lives on an organic farm on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State with her partner and a menagerie of plants and animals. She is a great lover of the natural world and a deep love of biodiversity and wildlife. www.ellenosheastoryteller.com