A two page spread in the back of the book features wildlife habitats and more than 30 animals that your child can go back and look for in the book.

The article, “Milford authors donate 500 books“, in the Milford Times features Carl and Jean’s donation of 500 of their award-winning books, A Pirate’s Quest, to Save the Children to improve children’s literacy in Eastern Kentucky.

Carl is quoted in the article, saying, “Reading stimulates the imagination. It can open the door to wondrous adventures!”

Carl and Jean were inspired to make the donation after seeing a segment on television about poor literacy rates in children in Eastern Kentucky.

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A Pirate's Quest is the winner of seven MAJOR awards including the Mom's Choice Award.

To improve reading skills for children in Eastern Kentucky, today Carl and Jean are donating 500 copies of their award-winning book, A Pirate’s Quest, to the nonprofit Save the Children. The books will be distributed to four elementary schools in Whitley County, Kentucky.

Carl and Jean are also donating four copies of our award-winning DVD movie, The Riddle in a Bottle, upon which the book is based, to the four elementary schools. The movie is the winner of 21 awards, including the Best of Children’s Programming in the BLUE Ocean Film Festival.

“Reading stimulates the imagination. It can open the door to wondrous adventures!” Carl says about the donation.

A Pirate’s Quest, the winner of seven major awards, helps children learn how life on earth is connected by moving water. The book includes more than fifty original oil paintings by our good friend Heiner Hertling, an award-winning artist and host of the PBS television show Your Brush With Nature.

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Shark photo courtesy stock.xchng.

Good news for sharks! Congress passes the Shark Conservation Act of 2010 to ban unimaginable shark finning, where the fins of live sharks are cut off and the sharks are thrown back in the water to die, in U.S. waters.

Learn more in the article, “Congress Passes Shark Conservation Act to Ban Gruesome Finning Practices“.

Help Children Learn About Ocean Conservation
Our award-winning children’s book, A Pirate’s Quest, and movie, The Riddle in a Bottle, help children learn that life on earth is connected by moving water. Your children will learn an appreciation for sharks and other wildlife.

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“We embarked on our journey with the book,  A Pirate’s Quest and immediately the children were engrossed by the illustrations as they are not only beautiful but a realistic depiction of plants and animals living from the lakes to the sea. We followed the pirate on his quest in the book and I listened as they made predictions about where the missing peg leg might be. 

Some were surprised, some knew right away, but all were excited that the pirate found his leg by the sea! We then made our own mural of “moving water” complete with the printable materials that you provided on your website. The children absolutely loved this activity; they were working together peacefully, cooperating as a group and helping one another.” Suzanne Bendick, Sourdough  Montessori School — Click here to see pictures and learn more about this water mural activity.

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Do you care about keeping our Great Lakes and oceans clean? The International Coastal Cleanup 2010 from the Ocean Conservancy is this Saturday and you can help!

The Ocean Conservancy International Coastal Cleanup, in partnership with organizations and individuals across the globe, engages people to remove trash and debris from the world’s beaches and waterways, identify the sources of debris, and change the behaviors that cause marine debris in the first place.

Get Involved!
Sign up for a clean up near you.

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Ocean Conservancy International Coastal Cleanup
Good Morning America: Just One Thing: Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup

Help Your Children Learn About Rivers, Oceans and Our Environment
Our award-winning book, A Pirate’s Quest, and movie, The Riddle in a Bottle, have won 28 awards and teach kids that all life on earth is connected by moving water. Visit our “For Educators” Web page for free activities for kids. Watch The Riddle in a Bottle short movie trailer below.

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Call 1-800-552-1867 between 9:00am to 5:00pm EST (Eastern Standard Time) Monday through Friday to order A Pirate’s Quest and The Riddle in a Bottle.

Review
“The Riddle in a Bottle, by the multi-talented sister-brother team of Laura and Robert Sams, is an inventive, humorous tale that educates about the environment as it entertains. The Samses’ quirky dialogue, clever songs, and comedic timing combine with impressive footage of sea turtles, muskrats, and frogs to make for a splendid, original children’s flick.” – Melissa Chianta, Mothering Magazine

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The loggerhead sea turtle is featured in the two page spread in the back of our book "A Pirate's Quest".

Scientists will be rescuing sea turtle nests and eggs in the Gulf of Mexico to protect them from the BP oil spill. The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is calling the plan the “Sea Turtle Late-Term Nest Collection and Hatchling Release Plan”.

Eggs, mostly of endangered loggerhead sea turtles, will be taken to Florida and once the turtles are ready, they will be released. Learn more in the article “Turtle egg rescue plan announced” from the BBC.

See the loggerhead sea turtle in our award-winning book, A Pirate’s Quest.

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Washing oiled Gannet. Photo by Les Stone courtesy of IBRRC Photostream on Flickr.

The International Bird Rescue Research Center (IBRRC) is conducting injured bird rescue to help oiled birds in the Gulf. I keep hearing the name of this organization in the news and wanted to learn more about them.

IBRRC is working with the Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research, the lead oiled wildlife organization on the ground, to set up and staff rehabilitation centers in Louisiana, Alabama Mississippi and Florida, to conduct injured bird rescue. They now have more than 40 members of their Oil Spill Response Team working on the Gulf Oil Spill.

The International Bird Rescue Research Center sounds like a terrific organization. Learn more about the IBRRC. To help your children learn how wildlife is affected by moving water, pick up a copy of our award-winning book A Pirate’s Quest.

Photo courtesy International Bird Rescue Center (IBRRC) Photostream on Flickr.

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Jugnu, a male Asiatic black bear, by the pool in Kund Park, Pakistan.

We care about bears and feature them in our children’s books One Child, One Planet, A Pirate’s Quest, and in our wildlife gallery. I want to to let you know about a group I recently discovered that is helping bears.

The World Society for the Protection of Animals is helping bears and other wildlife in the United States and world-wide. They created a preserve called Kund Park to help rescued bears live a happy and safe life.

Check them out and learn more about them at their website. I think they are doing great work. If you like what they do, make a donation. I did.

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"The Riddle in a Bottle" DVD features loggerhead sea turtles

Federal wildlife agencies proposed Wednesday increased protections for loggerhead turtles along both U.S. coasts, according to the article “U.S. wildlife agencies seek protections for loggerhead turtles” in The Baltimore Sun.

Ever since viewing the first clips from our award winning movie, The Riddle in a Bottle, featuring baby loggerhead sea turtles drifting along the ocean currents under floating mats of algae, I’ve been intrigued by these graceful and calm creatures. A loggerhead sea turtle is also featured in our award winning children’s nature book, A Pirate’s Quest.

According to the article in The Baltimore Sun, it was discovered that the status of seven of nine population groups of the turtles around the world had worsened to the point that they should be considered endangered. Learn more.

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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 Natural History and the Chicago Field Museum to hundreds of schools and libraries across the United States.

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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, videos, CDs, TV shows and interactive media.

Other 2009 Best of the Year first place winners include Elmo’s Christmas Countdown from Sesame Workshop, Ish from Weston Woods and Goosebumps: The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Learn more about The Riddle in a Bottle.

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