Ocean Devotion

Ocean Devotion Melissa Salvarani and Elizabeth Cummings

Copyright Š 2020

Text Copyright Š Elizabeth Mary Cummings Cover design by Melissa Salvarani First published 2020, Sydney Australia Copyright remains the property of the authors and apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission.

All inquiries should be made to the publishers. Sydney NSW 2034, Australia. Phone: +61 431 861 387 Email: hello@elizabethmarycummings.com Web: www.elizabethmarycummings.com Typesetting: Dataworks India Subjects: environment, pollution, clean oceans, marine life

ISBN: 978-1-922451-04-0 (paperback) ISBN: 978-1-922451-05-7 (hardback) ISBN: 978-0-6484064-5-7 (e-book)

Ocean Devotion

Melissa Salvarani

Elizabeth Cummings

The Hawaiian Islands are a true paradise of flowers.

Where tropical parrots balance on palm towers.

Here is Kalea selling the leis that she’s made Whilst Hiapo heads out to surf the biggest of waves.

Today gliding on riptides he sees a strange sight It bumps into his board giving Hiapo a fright!

Something shining and glittering far out at sea Hiapo wonders to himself ‘What can it be?’

‘It’s as big as an island - I must check this out!’

‘Kalea can you help?’ Hiapo gives his friend a shout.

Hopping in the canoe they head out to the island.

To discover the truth about this shimmering diamond.

Kalea laughs. ‘An island of diamonds!

We’ll be rich as can be!

I’ll be the queen and you’ll be the king with me!’

As they get closer Kalea cries in dismay ‘Oh no! This is plastic! It’s blocking the bay!’

This mountain of plastic I don’t like it a bit!

You are right it’s rubbish the sea’s full of it!

Where does it come from?

We need to find out.

Yes we must stop at once from floating about.

Then out of the rubbish there appears a soft light A huge bottle starts moving - it gives them a fright.

The children are startled the bottle starts to speak As it raises itself out of the deep.

‘I was waiting for you, we all need your help The rubbish has washed up here with the kelp.’

‘Being here in the sea endangers birds, turtles and fish It traps them and chokes them - This was never our wish.’

‘This isn’t our place, we must be recycled again Give us new life and the pollution will end.’

‘So much sealife in danger how can they stand it?

We must make a difference for our oceans and planet!’

By taking this mess to the recycling station ‘Each bottle’s transformed with imagination!’

Can we work together to save the Big Blue.

‘Sure!’ said the locals, ‘you can use our canoe.’

Let us clean this ocean there’s no time like now To make a difference for all we sure know how!

No more plastic in our oceans, seas and land A clean future for all - let’s make a stand!

GLOSSARY PAGES

Do you know what these words mean?

A B C D E F G H I J K L

algae bacteria, beach clean, community diversity environment fish global warming habitat ingested, island jetsam kelp, krill living

M N O P Q R S T U W X

marine life native, nature, nautical ocean plastic, pollution quality (as in water quality) recycle, reef, renewal, resource species, sustainable tide underwater, universe wave, world X-ray (let us see the plastic marine animals and birds have ingested and swallowed) Y you (you play an important role in helping to protect and restore the world’s oceans) Z zero waste

What is happening in these pictures?