Grandmother's Treasure

About the Book

Grandmother´s Treasure is a short story written about a grandmother who finds a perfect shell on the beach near her winter home. She tells her granddaughters how "Little Shell" made the journey from birth across the ocean floor and arrived on her beach. Grandmother and the girls discuss the food chain, and why they should put live shells back in the ocean if they find them stranded on the beach. The story ends with Grandmother giving each girl a choice of the shells in her basket, so they too can hear the wind in the shell and the story of its journey in the ocean. Grandmother keeps Little Shell warm and safe in her hand because Little Shell was her treasure.

About the Author

Beryl Bonney-Conklin was born and raised in Michigan. She currently resides in Florida in the winter and southern Illinois in the summer with her husband Bob Conklin. She is an artist, that loves painting seascapes and dreamscapes where cottages are tucked behind picket fences surrounded by vibrant flowers. She is a published poet of many small magazines and was recently published in "The Voices Of Michigan" Vol. IV. Beryl worked for ten years in Special Education and then retired from the field of education to remarry and move to Illinois with her husband. They love to travel and spend time discovering new places to photograph or paint. She has been blessed with six children and now with eighteen grandchildren and six great grandchildren, she finds their imagination and delightful imagery are the source of many of her ideas and only add to the fun of writing for children.