AMERICANE

About the Book

This book has lots of interesting imaginative characters with whom I have become acquainted, during the course of this writing. There is my friend, Buddy, who I met in the Morikami Gardens in Del Ray Beach, one day. He is an adorable egret and I am sure you will love reading about him. Then there is Sammy, the sea horse, who I met while visiting the Anna Kolb Nature Center. He kept on starring at me and his eyes kept looking after me as if he was trying to communicate. You will see him in the Florida Chapter as well. He is cute guy who kept on looking at me and trying to make friends. In southern Florida chapter, I also met and write about our friend Cara’s peacock who is quite an interesting bird. I call her the poetic peacock. You will like her poems, I am sure. In Seattle I will introduce to the only villain in the book. He is Thomas, the Troll, a Norwegian car-crusher who snaps up automobiles along the Interstate highways out west. I met him as he was trying to grab up our car under I-5. You can see him under the Seattle Interstate as he holds our car in his grip. You will see me trying to talk him out of crushing our rent-a- car. Any of these pictures could have been on the cover but I chose the one with my friends in the refl ection from our Florida apartment. I set up each section of the book with a picture that I felt showed an interesting view of that section. When you look at the Chapter about Pittsburgh, please study the picture of the bride coming home and see whether you can understand where the bride’s house is.

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