The author, Crystal Ward Kent of Eliot, Maine and the illustrator, Denise F. Brown of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, are frequent collaborators, and this is their second children’s book.

Kent owns Kent Creative, a creative services agency providing writing, design, marketing and PR out of Dover, New Hampshire. She is an established writer whose work has regularly appeared in magazines such as Taste of the Seacoast, Northeast Flavor, Coastal Home, University of New Hampshire Magazine, Bay State Builder, Granite State Builder, Yankee and others.

She has also written for the Chicken Soup books, Guideposts books, is the author of Mainely Kids: A Guide to Family Fun in Southern Maine, and the new “Harvest Maine” published by The History Press.

Animal lovers will recognize her as the author of the popular essay, “The Journey,” about the special bond between animals and those who love them (www.journeyforanimals.com).

Denise Brown and husband, John O’Sullivan, own Ad-Cetera Graphics and Raccoon Studios of Portsmouth. She is the author/illustrator of Wind: Wild Horse Rescue adventure book and is well known throughout the region for her stunning watercolors of Seacoast scenes, architectural renderings, horse illustrations, and her pony figurine designs with The Trail of Painted Ponies. She is also the creator of the popular series of children’s coloring books, Ted Gets Out, which celebrates the adventures of one of her cats, and a mini children’s book, Abenaki, the Indian Pony, about a little horse who travels across the country.

Kent and Brown’s first children’s book, “Tugboat River Rescue” was released in 2012 and told the true story of a tugboat rescue on the Piscataqua River. The book has been featured in national tugboat magazines, has a five-star rating on Amazon, and has been the best-selling children’s tugboat book on Amazon.

Kent and Brown plan to create additional children’s books which highlight their passion for nature and animals.

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