Shelly Goes to Washington, D.C.
Stacey Leigh Malloy, Katie Cassidy
Paperback
(eTreasures Publishing, LLC, June 26, 2014)
SHELLY THE HERMIT CRAB all started when the Author, Stacey Leigh Malloy, took her daughter Hannah to a local gift shop in CAPE COD, Hyannis Massachusetts and her daughter fell in love with a pink shelled hermit crab that was being sold as a pet. What the Author’s 8 year old daughter, who spent all her allowance on the hermit crab and the hermit crab kit accoutrements did not realize was what a big responsibility even a little, cute, pink shelled hermit crab could be as a pet. The Illustrator, Katie Cassidy, the Authors sister, loved the real life fun stories the new family pet “Shelly” created and would draw fun scenes and send them to the family. HENCE a book idea was created . . . IN THE SERIES, eventually, the little girl and her family realize where a hermit crab really belongs and made it part of their life and part of their family by perhaps make believe and perhaps by chance encounters that allowed them to live together and have experiences together while making sure a hermit crab gets what it needs and lives where it thrives the best. The moral of all the adventures in the series is that EVERYONE LIVES HAPPILY EVER AFTER