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Alison In Wonderland: The Strangest Week at the Beach
Jim Brown
Jim Brown taught history at Samford University aught history at Samford University. He wrote songs and poems for his grandkids when they were young, and always wanted
to memorialize an extended family beach trip in a book for young folks – one that gets deeply into natural history but in a fantasy setting.
Jane Reed Ross is one of Birmingham’s best-known landscape architects for public spaces. She used sketches and watercolors to portray design concepts. For years her chief avocation, she painted landscapes, winning awards and a following, and she has always wanted to illustrate a book for young folks.
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Alison In Wonderland: The Strangest Week at the Beach
Alison – nine years old and just finished with Third Grade – has spent time with her family on the Gulf Coast before. But this week is nothing like those earlier visits, as she is sometimes, somehow, changed in size and even shape to help her learn how various beach and shallow-water creatures live. And she gets answers to interesting questions she’d never before really thought to ask. If half-moons are always up for exactly half a night, which half? When flying a kite in the daytime, why do you most often have to fly it back over the beach…