MCS supporter Amy Jones decided to take her love for dolphins one step further by writing a series of stories to raise funds to help MCS protect them in the wild.
Amy, who is now 9 years old, started writing stories after her mother told her bedtime tales about Dolphy and his friends - extraordinary dolphins who use their magic powers to help people and other marine animals. Amy sent the stories to MCS and we were so impressed that we decided to try and help Amy get these books published (all publishers and printers reading this who want to help, please email katherine.stephenson@mcsuk.org).
In the meantime, we decided to make the first story into an e-book with the addition of beautiful illustrations from volunteer illustrator Julia Roberts.
In return for a donation of £5 or more to our 'Help Dolphy Save our Seas' online appeal, MCS will email you Amy's first fully illustrated story 'How Dolphy met Angel and foiling the oil'. I'm sure you will be as charmed by her story as we were, and even better will have helped vital work to protect dolphins and other marine life.
Amy really wants to help MCS prevent marine litter from harming marine wildlife. After hearing about our 'Don't Let Go' campaign which aims to raise awareness of the dangers of mass balloon releases, Amy was inspired to write a further story about how Dolphy's friend almost dies when he mistakes a balloon for food. Though Amy’s story does have a happy ending, in reality, happy endings are rare. Marine litter is a global menace responsible for killing thousands of marine mammals, turtles and other animals each year. To a dolphin or turtle, a plastic bag or deflated balloon can look like food and once swallowed, can cause blockages in the animal’s digestive system, which can ultimately lead to death.
So please donate as much as you can to the 'Help Dolphy Save our Seas' appeal so that MCS can continue vital work to protect our precious marine wildlife by clicking on this link.
MCS would like to take this opportunity to thank Amy and Caroline Jones for everything; Chris Lowes of Dolphin Care UK for his determination; Sophie Stevens for her computer illustrations and helping Amy with the video diary; Lucinda Higgins for her expertise editing and compiling Amy's story; Julia Roberts for her character development and illustrations; Elaine Brown for her advice on e-books and webpages; Androniki Petsos of the UN Year of the Dolphin; Joe Ngari from Kenya for the offer of help; Slim Palmer for his advice on publishing and printing; and to everyone who supports the Help Dolphy Save our Seas appeal.
