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Author Insight
Where do you get your ideas?
So, sometimes I don't know where my ideas come from but this one was a direct steal from my three year old grand daughter for whom the main character of the book is named. We were driving and from her car seat I hear her singing. I asked what she was singing. She said she was singing a song to help the baby dolphin find his mother for he was lost. I asked, "Where did you get the song?" she said, "From my elbow." "You have a song in in your elbow?" I asked. "Yes, and one in my arm and one in my knee...and then she went on to name other body parts that did not make it into the book! But, the idea was too wonderful not to use.
Book Excerpt
Shipwrecked
Noé laughed, a throaty sound, and her huge brown eyes lit with merriment. "I'm not from this island. I'm from one of the islands near here. I just come to sing to the fish."
"Sing to the fish?" Ruby wrinkled her forehead.
"Yes, well, sometimes they forget who they are. I have to remind them."
Great, Jillie thought, everyone on this island is crazy!
The comment didn’t put Ruby off at all. "How do you know what to sing?"
"Oh, it depends on where in my body the song comes from. The one I was singing earlier came from my elbow. It's a naming song, to help the fish remember their names."
Now Jillie could feel her forehead wrinkling. Had this girl escaped from an insane asylum?
Ruby, always curious, continued, "Are there songs in other parts of your body?"
"Oh yes," answered Noé. "There's one in my shoulder for the birds, and one in my knee for the trees…"
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