Swimmer Lynne Cox is the Write Stuff

 

New Book is Doggone Good!

 

Written by SurfWriter Girls Sunny Magdaug and Patti Kishel

Open water swimmer extraordinaire Lynne Cox swam the English Channel twice before she was seventeen – setting speed records both times! As much at home in the water as on land, Cox’s swimming feats are legendary.

From swimming in the frigid waters of Antarctica and across the Strait of Magellan to around the Cape of Good Hope and across Lake Baikal in Siberia, Cox has amazed people. She even brought world superpowers America and the Soviet Union together when she swam the Bering Strait connecting the two countries on August 7, 1987.

 

As a motivational speaker and author, Cox continues to uplift and inspire adults and children alike, as she does now with her new book Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog. The story of another athlete, this one a member of the famed Italian School of Water Rescue Dogs, features a lovable – and seemingly untrainable – chocolate Newfoundland on her path to becoming a heroic, lifesaving rescue dog.

 

SurfWriter Girls Sunny Magdaug and Patti Kishel have been admirers of Cox for a long time. She and Sunny both went to Los Alamitos High School in Orange County, CA. So, we weren’t surprised that Tales of Al, with its underdog super achiever, would have such a strong emotional impact and have us cheering. 

Cox has written before about aquatic animals who win your heart, including these award-winning books:

Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas, illustrated by Caldecott Medal Winner Brian Floca, is a School Library Journal Best Children's Book of the Year. Set in Christchurch, New Zealand, it's the story of a whale seal named Elizabeth who likes to bask in the sun – in the middle of the town's two-lane road – far from where she should be in the open sea.

 

Based on a true story told to Cox by two children in the town, Cox brings it to life for the rest of us, recounting Elizabeth's incredible journey up the Avon River and her search for a place to call her own.

 

Grayson is the captivating bestseller of Cox's face-to-face encounter with a baby whale off the California coast when Cox was a teenager. Separated from its mother, the whale decides to follow Cox on her swim. But, if Cox can't find a way to reunite the missing mother and child, the baby whale could die.

 

Two tiny specks in the huge ocean swimming together while anxious bystanders watch from shore, it becomes an endurance test for both. And a question of if the mother whale will find them in time. 

Now, as we celebrate the last golden days of summer and the leisurely time to dream, why not find a comfy spot to read and follow the incredible journeys of Al, Elizabeth, and Grayson?

 

SurfWriter Girls

Surf’n Beach Scene Magazine

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