The population of winter flounder is disappearing in Long Island Sound. As angry fishermen feud with the local power plant to fix blame, the Great Nutmeg State commissions a legendary whaling ship to harpoon the flounders' nemesis: The Great Spotted Whale. It's up to young Pirate Calvin with the Wise Seaport Rat and a crew of little mateys to save the whale, setting course aboard the strangest pirate ship that ever sailed the seas. The story reunites two characters from a previous adventure, Pirate Calvin meets the Wise Seaport Rat and is loosely based on historical events in Southeastern…mehr
The population of winter flounder is disappearing in Long Island Sound. As angry fishermen feud with the local power plant to fix blame, the Great Nutmeg State commissions a legendary whaling ship to harpoon the flounders' nemesis: The Great Spotted Whale. It's up to young Pirate Calvin with the Wise Seaport Rat and a crew of little mateys to save the whale, setting course aboard the strangest pirate ship that ever sailed the seas. The story reunites two characters from a previous adventure, Pirate Calvin meets the Wise Seaport Rat and is loosely based on historical events in Southeastern Connecticut. Some are factual, like the longstanding feud between the nuclear power plant and the local fishermen over who is responsible for the area's declining population of winter flounder. Also playing into the storyline and significant to the region is Connecticut's unprecedented tax recently imposed on the business profits of the state's sole nuclear power plant. The author, Fred Neff, read a troubling environmental study that reported more flounder larvae by the power plant's cooling water pumps than ever in Niantic Bay! A footnote added that perhaps something else was driving more flounder in from Long Island Sound. And that is the sliver of truth propelling the author's theory of a third entity at play. Enter the Great Spotted Whale. At the time this story was written, the legendary 1800s whaling ship, Charles W. Morgan, was being refitted at the Mystic Seaport, to become seaworthy again with her maiden voyage the following year. The author pokes good-hearted fun at the 3-Headed Beast, local fishermen, and the whaling ship's greenhorn commander, Captain Brag. In weaving imagination with local history, adding equal parts of political satire and a dash of commentary, he has spun a good yarn worthy of seafaring readers and political pundits alike.
Fred Neff's Calvin and Dad children's book series stem from real life fatherhood experiences with his toddler son, Calvin. The Memory Tree is the first in the series.When speaking to children at schools, Fred is often asked how he got started writing. After stating that he learned how to rhyme by listening to songs on the radio, replacing the words with those of his own, he usually gets oohs and aahs of wonder from children in the audience when he adds that it was before television! After receiving a B.A. in Journalism from San Diego State University, Fred wrote numerous articles as a Contributing Editor for San Diego Home/Garden Magazine before turning the pages in life to eventually set down roots in Southeastern Connecticut, where he has lived and worked for the past three decades. Fred believes that in every adversity there is a seed of opportunity of equal or greater value. From the adversity of a divorce, he found a seed of opportunity in writing stories about the adventures that he and his young son, Calvin, have shared. This led to publishing numerous books either about Calvin or as a collaborative effort, with Calvin challenging Dad to write stories for him, such as the fireman's favorite rescue story, Farnsworth the Firehose and Taylor Grief, and a holiday favorite, Can Gi-Normus the Tow Truck and Squawky Palone Save Christmas?
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