Review\nA dynamic adventure tale, based on a true story, told in evocative images and prose. ~ Kirkus Reviews\n"This book elevates Conrad's amazing expedition into the realm of magic and myth, and imbues her journey with a new-found depth that only a gifted artist/illustration such as Rothman can add... Conrad wields a pen as deftly as a paddle, and Rothman's art portrays Conrad's words with a profound and beautiful simplicity. Darn near every page is suitable for framing. If I had a daughter (or a son), I would buy each two copies -- one to keep forever on a shelf, and the other to paste the panels on the ceiling of their bedroom, so they could float away each night toward their own adventurous destiny, with a brave girl and a wise kayak as their guides." 
~ Michael Modzelewski, author of Inside Passage: Living With Killer Whales, Bald Eagles, and Kwakiutl Indians\n"This book has the potential to empower, educate, motivate, and entertain readers of all ages." ~ Nancy Soares, The Tsunami Rangers\nJoin Kami the Kayak and her paddler Suz, along with a host of outdoor friends on a wondrous seafaring adventure to Alaska.\nBased on a true story! 
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In this picture book adaptation of Susan Conrad's "Inside: One Woman's Journey Through the Inside Passage," we follow the dream of a little girl's big adventure in a tiny kayak. A talking kayak? A dreaming child? YES! Together they encounter magic and mayhem on a journey through a breathtaking land of challenge and reward. Come along for the ride through one of the greatest waterways in western North America: The Inside Passage! All ages will learn that we are all capable of anything-and will always reach our destination-if we simply believe.\nFrom the Author\nI really did kayak the Inside Passage. And I really do have a kayak named Kami; it's short for Chamellia. She gracefully carried me and all my supplies through the 1,200-mile ribbon of water known as the Inside Passage. My journey took 66 days, during which time I lived in a wetsuit, paddled marathon distances, forged friendships with quirky people, and pretended not to be intimidated by seven-hundred-pound grizzly bears and forty-ton whales. It was a journey of transformation—because the true adventures of our lives are always inward. This journey taught me to follow my dreams and trust that we are all infinitely capable of accomplishing anything we want to in life—if we simply believe.\nI sincerely hope my children's book based on this true story resonates with you and the children you share it with. It's not a book to be read once and then shelved. Rather, it's a book to be read over and over, where a child studies each storyboard, trying to squeeze everything he or she can out of the colorful, bold illustrations and zippy storyline. Above all, I hope the underlying message stays with young and not-so-young: "Whatever makes your heart zing—do that."

Inside my Sea of Dreams: The Adventures of Kami and Suz

Children's Books

Conrad, Susan Marie

Action & Adventure

Driftwood Publishing

Inside: One Woman's Journey Through the Inside Passage

2017 Washington State Book Award finalist, based on the strength of its literary merit and lasting importance! The Ocean is calling me. This is my Journey. With these words, in the spring of 2010, Susan Marie Conrad scaled her world down to an 18-foot sea kayak and launched a solo journey that took her north to Alaska. With no sense of where she belonged in space and unreconciled feelings of a painful childhood following her, she decided that instead of running away, she would run toward her dreams. Her adventure took her along the western coast of North America, through the Inside Passage-a 1,200-mile ribbon of water-in a journey of the sea and soul. The expedition took her deep within herself, humbling her, healing her, helping her to discover the depths of her own strength and courage. On her way from Anacortes, Washington, to Juneau, Alaska, she grappled with fear and exhaustion, forged friendships with quirky people in the strangest places, endured perilous weather and angry seas, and pretended not to be intimidated by 700-pound grizzly bears and 40-ton whales. She lived her dream.

INSIDE: One Woman's Journey Through the Inside Passage

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