They鈥檙e 鈥渆asily one of the cutest creatures on the planet," says Stefanie Fields 鈥� and they鈥檝e inspired the author to write her fourth children鈥檚 book.
The author, originally from Bellingham, now makes her home in New Westminster.
She鈥檚 currently running a Kickstarter campaign to help fund her new kids鈥� picture book, The Greatest Treasure, illustrated by Heather Gross.
The story synopsis is a simple one: 鈥淔or Sam the Sea Otter, a priceless family heirloom leads to the best day ever, until a seagull fight changes everything.鈥�
What happens next won鈥檛 be revealed, but Fields is promising that young readers will take away a valuable lesson 鈥渁bout not being attached to material things because the most precious things in life aren鈥檛 things.鈥�
But the book comes with a warning: cuteness overload.
鈥淵ou take otters, and you add Heather鈥檚 amazing illustrations, and you end up with a book that鈥檚 so cute we might not be able to handle it,鈥� Fields says in a video on her Kickstarter page.
Money raised in the campaign will go toward artwork, copyrights, distribution, marketing and other publishing costs.
Fields鈥� future goal is to partner with a big-name publishing house so The Greatest Treasure can get into as many schools and libraries as possible, in Canada, the U.S. and beyond.
A portion of sales from the book will go towards ocean conservation efforts. As of this post, the campaign had already surpassed its funding goal, but Fields noted in a message to the Record that 鈥淭he more backers we have = the more books we sell = the more money we donate to help clean the ocean!鈥�
Check out for the Kickstarter campaign and information.
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