Pink Polka Dotted Skies

By Dan Hayashi

A charming, fanciful and rhyming fable about a traveling zoo, whose mama elephant, named Nellie, gives birth to a talking baby pachyderm. As the zoo’s main miraculous attraction, baby Ellie overcomes mocking ridicule & cage imprisonment to go on a novel journey. She is freed by the zoo's compassionate balloon man and inspires her brother rhinos and hippos to inhale helium, just as she did, which allows them to float away from the grumpy zoo owner, who's a curmudgeon. When the balloon man runs out of helium, Ellie finds that her laughter replaces the helium much better and that happiness takes her away from all troubles. The zoo animal's escapades lead to a legendary tale about flying pachyderms, whose feet leave pink polka dotted trails high in the firmament of children’s dreams. Winged shoes, however, sold in the zoo's novelty store, prepare children after school in the Spring and Summer, to learn to fly with pachyderms in their dreams.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dan Hayashi
• Release date: Jun 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005384265

Dan Hayashi

After a Batchelor's Degree in Fine Arts, with a minor in psychology from Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, CA in 1968, (now Calif. Inst. of the Arts, Sylmar, CA) I was drafted and spent 2 years in the military. A few years after returning home, my wife & I opened a computer graphics company in Lawndale, CA. We thrived. Though always interested in writing, my literary interests were put aside by business demands, until retiring in 1996. In 2010, I was serendipitously commissioned to illustrate a children's card game & two kid's books by a new company. This re-ignited my desires to combine my writing & caricature skills to publish children's books of my own. It was the perfect culmination of timing & the synergy of friendship. My new friend reinvigorated my dreams of authorship. I wrote & illustrated my first book in 2012, then another in December, 2013. Two more were published Dec, 2014 & June, 2015. I just completed my best so far, August 2015 is a preorder eBook. I have now authored & illustrated 5 animal tales & Illustrated a fellow author's 2 kiddy books & designed his children's card game art. I promise many more children's objects of entertainment & animal stories..

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