Counting by the Sea

is a children''s counting book 1-20. Since I love walking on the beach, I chose things I see on my walks. Most of the items are common to the Carolina seashores where I have spent many summers as a child and as an adult.

Children love to play at the seashore and children love finding and seeing things washed up on the shore. The items I found on my walks inspired me for the paintings. The idea for this book came about years ago while I was studying children''s literature as an undergraduate education major.

I took a short book I had written in college and expanded it. I enjoyed drawing the pictures because I love to draw pictures of the ocean.