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Laura Sams and Robert Sams share ocean stories in Dubai

Laura Sams and Robert Sams, authors of our book A Pirate’s Quest, and directors of our DVD movie The Riddle in a Bottle, enjoy sharing their talents through author visits and live performances each year. You can watch their wonderful presentation in Dubai in the video above. They have performed at the Smithsonian Museum of [...]

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“The Riddle in a Bottle” awarded Best Educational Film

KIDS FIRST! announced its Best of the Year Awards, and our underwater film The Riddle in a Bottle won the Best Educational Film for Ages 5 to 12. KIDS FIRST! is the world’s largest film festival, run by the Coalition for Quality Children’s Media, a national, nonprofit organization that evaluates, rates and endorses children’s feature films, DVDs, [...]

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Whale shark teeth

From the Sisbro Blog, Laura Sams writes that in their next episode of The Riddle Solvers, they find an ancient journal with a riddle about shark teeth. She is blown away by how tiny the whale shark teeth are, and how the biggest fish in the ocean has such tiny teeth. Learn more

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“The Riddle in a Bottle” winner at BLUE Ocean Film Festival

The Riddle in a Bottle is the festival award winner in the category of Children’s Programming. The award was given at the BLUE Ocean Film Festival in Savannah, Georgia. Approximately 300 industry delegates attended the inaugural BLUE Ocean Film Festival, which featured presentations and panels by industry leaders from ocean filmmaking, broadcasting, research, photography, conservation and government. BLUE [...]

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Baby sea lion rescued on San Francisco Bay area freeway

According to the Huffington Post, a baby sea lion was rescued early Monday after wandering onto a busy San Francisco Bay area freeway. Some drivers on Interstate 880 called the California Highway Patrol, reporting the animal “walking” in the center divider near the Oakland Coliseum. Authorities think the sea lion likely made it onto land from [...]

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Save Our Seas For Kids

We published the children’s book A Pirate’s Quest, and the movie, The Riddle in a Bottle, to teach kids how life on earth is connected by moving water, and to help save our seas and ocean wildlife. There is a fun website for kids from the Save Our Seas Foundation. Called “Save Our Seas For Kids”, [...]

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Children’s pirate book and pirate DVD win awards

There is a nice article about our children’s pirate book, A Pirate’s Quest, and pirate DVD, The Riddle in a Bottle, in The Milford Times. “We wrote ‘The Peg Leg Song’ in which a pirate must search for a lost family heirloom peg leg by following the moving water from the lakes to the rivers [...]

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Water conservation for kids

Water conservation for kids helps them preserve clean water Life on Earth is connected through moving water.  That’s the message in our children’s movie, The Riddle in a Bottle. The half hour children’s movie, filmed by award- winning wildlife filmmakers Laura Sams and Robert Sams of Sisbro Studios, is about wildlife and water conservation for kids. [...]

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The Riddle in a Bottle wins Parents’ Choice Award

Want to learn about preserving our oceans?  The Riddle in a Bottle (scroll down once on page) has been designated a 2009 Parent’s Choice Award winner. The DVD was produced thanks to a generous grant from the Save Our Seas Foundation. Be sure to check out the foundation’s website. They are doing really great work to [...]

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