Ellie on the Island

Ellie the rat terrier spends the summer on Bald Head Island, where she is amazed by an encounter with a loggerhead sea turtle.

Elementary-aged children will enjoy reading about Ellie the rat terrier's summer on Bald Head Island and her encounter with an endangered loggerhead sea turtle. Readers will learn about how scientists work to protect the sea turtles.

Robin Huestis Prak lives on Bald Head Island, NC, where her passion for the island's wildlife and her adoration of Ellie the rat terrier moved her to create a book featuring Ellie and the endangered loggerhead sea turtles. When Robin isn't accompanying her husband, Mark, and Ellie on walks (aka squirrel hunts), she is photographing birds and other wild creatures (including her four grandchildren), singing at the Village Chapel, cross-stitching the youngest grandchild's Christmas stocking, reading, playing the piano, or pretending to caddy for Mark (there are birds on the golf course, so she takes her camera).