Maine Lobster Tales

By F.John McLaughlin and Gordon D'Arcy

Twenty young lobsters graduating from Lobster School emerge from the depths of the Gulf of Maine. They colonize the “Black Rocks,” three small rocky islands a quarter of a mile off York Harbor Beach. They are very excited, as they are free for the first time from parental supervision. Disaster strikes the following morning when they realize that Lancelot Lobster is missing. He is always ravenous and they assume that, despite all the warnings in school, Lancelot might have been tempted to enter a lobster trap. Their adventures begin: a dramatic rescue, a lobster hunter, a mussel-eating fox, smugglers, shipwrecks, a ghost circus, submarines, lobster boat races, a misunderstanding in a lobster bar, and the heroic rescue of an entrapped whale.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Aug 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9798823013413

F.John McLaughlin

Dr. F. John McLauglin was raised in England, went to school in Ireland, and was very tired when he got home. After obtaining a medical degree from Trinity College, Dublin, he set out to explore the New World 400 years after Columbus. He settled in New England, teaches at Harvard, and practices pediatrics in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He has written four young adult books and is working on a fifth (book). “Hamish the Haggis”, is the story of the 3-legged haggis from the Highlands of Scotland. The story touches on golf, whisky, deception, Robert Burns, bagpipes, and the escape of the haggis to North America. “Eoin the Irish Bald Eagle” is the story of a juvenile bald eagle, found exhausted in a field in County Kerry, Ireland. What was a bald eagle doing in Ireland? This book relates the eagle’s tale of how he crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and his adventures in Ireland. “Great Auk Tales” is for young and old. In it, he brings the extinct great auks back from the grave, and relates their exciting adventures as they find a new home. “The Gollymocky Whale” follows the adventures of a group of boys in an Irish boarding school as they set out to free a landlocked humback whale. All four books are masterfully illustrated by the artist Gordon D’Arcy, Ireland’s leading nature artist.

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