This image is the cover for the book Mangrove Sands, the Enchanted Seaworld and Beyond

Mangrove Sands, the Enchanted Seaworld and Beyond

This book is a sequel to Mangrove Sands. It aims to inspire and educate children who, either by fate or disability, have difficult starts in life. Each chapter provides a human life lesson including; learning about other cultures, taking responsibility, how to handle bullies, encouraging goals, environmental awareness, friendship, and human qualities.
Based on an island in South East Queensland, Australia, four children who have difficult starts in life are chosen by Parlow the pelican to experience a better life in the Enchanted Sea World. A magical ingot and tunnel is the only way into this magical world beneath mangrove sands where the children are mentored by Dugong tutors and experience many exciting adventures with their talking animal friends.
In this series, the adventures continue when the children learn about a new culture after meeting a 10-year-old Aboriginal girl, Wanjee, who is chosen to join them in the Enchanted Sea World away from her horrid alcoholic foster parents. The children learn of a new language, symbolic art, dreamtime stories and bush medicine.
Amidst playing didgeridoos, throwing boomerangs, flying on swings attached to whistling kites, the children escape bushfires and meet Toddalick, a giant green healing frog who takes the children on the ride of their lives to help stop an environmental disaster.
Mangrove Sands, the Enchanted Seaworld and Beyond is full of enchanting adventures, life lessons and magical moments. It aims to provide hope, inspiration, respect and education of other cultures to children around the globe.

L. J. Nilsson, Sallie-Anne Swift

Born in 1962, Melbourne, Victoria, the author has lived on a small island in South East Queensland, Australia, since 2007. She lived and worked in Sweden for five years and graduated in Utah, U.S.A. A qualified counsellor and life coach, the author worked with young school students from diverse backgrounds and specialised conditions for eight years. During this time she worked with ‘Closing the Gap’ alongside her friend Leonie Watson, Elder of the Muandik People, helping Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander school students learn more about their culture.
The author wrote her first unpublished children’s book at the age of 17 years winning an ‘Alpha Betta Gamma’ award.
The illustrator, Sallie-Anne Swift is an award winning Australian artist living in Long Beach California and sister of the author.
Sallie-Anne also illustrated the first novel of the Mangrove Sands series.

Austin Macauley Publishers