Duffy's Lucky Escape est l'histoire engageante de la relation entre les humains et la faune et les dangers auxquels les tortues sont confrontées dans leurs propres habitats naturels en raison de la pollution plastique. Cette histoire magnifiquement illustrée guide les jeunes enfants à travers l'aventure de Duffy et sa rencontre avec les plastiques dans la mer après une tempête. Il enseigne aux enfants l'importance de prendre soin de notre environnement et comment ils peuvent aider de manière amusante et amicale. Obtenez votre copie spéciale ici, signée par l'auteur!
Author Ellie Jackson, a mother of four has written a series of books to help educate children about the impact of plastics on ocean ecosystems.
Ellie Jackson, who lives by the sea in Looe, Cornwall, wrote her first book while living in Australia. It was inspired by a year spent on a tropical island, during which she and her family saw a turtle being released back into the ocean after a year of treatment for ingesting plastic.
“My children and I were transfixed by the sight of this beautiful creature being set free, and subsequently visited a turtle hospital on the mainland to find out more,” she remarks.
“Afterwards, the children were obsessed with clearing litter from beaches, so that they could help protect turtles and other sea life.”
In this way, Ellie, an environmental scientist who taught geography for six years, conceived her idea to use children’s fiction as a way of educating young people about the threat to sea life of our dependence on plastic. Thus Duffy the sea turtle was born, whose adventures provide the basis for Ellie’s first book, entitled Duffy’s Lucky Escape and launched earlier this year.
So far, Duffy has sold well, and Ellie’s ambition is to have a copy in every UK school by the end of 2018. She is also selling the book around the world, in places such as Indonesia, India and Australia – with low-cost electronic copies available in countries where books are hard to come by.
“The important thing is that the book reaches people and changes attitudes,” says Ellie, an who regularly organises litter picks with children on Cornwall’s beaches. “This is about protecting our oceans for all creatures, including future generations of humans.”
Ellie has recently launched Marli’s Tangled Tale, the second book in her series, about a puffin who gets tangled in a balloon, with another book due out in spring 2018.
“By using engaging stories with fantastic illustrations by gifted artists like my collaborator on Duffy’s Lucky Escape, Liz Oldmeadow, we’re able to connect with children of all ages,” she reports. “It’s my view that projects like this can have a real impact.
“By educating young people, we’re safeguarding the future, and raising a more enlightened generation.”
Ellie Jackson returned to the UK from Australia in 2017, after her brother Dom was killed in a kayaking accident off the coast of Scotland. Duffy’s Lucky Escape is dedicated to Dom’s memory.
Ellie lives in Looe with her husband and four children, and works full-time as a writer and campaigner. She has a degree in environmental science from the University of Birmingham, and taught geography for six years prior to starting her family.
The danger to sea life of plastic in the oceans is a topic of great concern to global governments, with UK environment secretary Michael Gove recently proposing regulation to control the use of plastic bottles. Each year, 100 million sea creatures die as a direct result of plastic in the oceans – depleting biodiversity and impoverishing our environment.
Duffy’s Lucky Escape is illustrated by Liz Oldmeadow, an artist who belonged to a mums’ group with Ellie in Australia.
