The Marsh Adventures: Of Times and Places

by Steve Patton

Overview

In a quiet marsh, four friends come together as they regularly meet: Mepho, Mark, Glower and Wenzel. These four insect friends soon find out a long-standing legend may have some truth to it...and not only that, but may just becoming true. If so, it could mean the end of the marsh as it is known. Who will believe the legend? Who will believe them? From Alder the willow flycatcher to Big Mouth, the creature that lives below the waters of the marsh...it all leads up to a final ending that is sure to please young and old alike. Written for my son when he was five, I moved to publish the book as it is wonderful tale of friendships, survival, overcoming insurmountable odds, and showing that succeeding may just rely in ingenuity instead of brute strength. I hope you read this, and I truly hope you enjoy it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780990723097
Publisher:	Mepho Press
Publication date:	04/01/2024
Series:	The Marsh Adventures , #1
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.33(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

I live on a ridge in Southern Indiana with my wife and son. We enjoy hunting and fishing and spending time together doing different events around the area. It is a great place to live, and it's a great place to write!

I have always written stories. My earliest memories will be in 2nd and 3rd grade in elementary school, but in first grade I won our reading contest. I loved books and I loved to write.

In 4th and 5th grade, my teacher let me set up a table and sell my stories for 25 cents each (this would have been 1979-1980). Not only did I sell stories to the other kids who loved them, but some of my teachers would buy the stories as well...not to show support mind you, but they enjoyed the stories as well.

In my junior year in high school, I wrote a one-page story about an Arabian fighting a desert tribe, it was a brief encounter. It was the closest thing to a perfect paper I had ever written, with only one slight mistake found by my English teacher. She was constantly wanting me to write short stories for magazines of that nature, but I never followed through on it.

Fast forward some 30 years...yes, that is right, some 30 years. My son was 5 and he was home schooled - he had a strong engineering mind and even at age 5 the children's books just didn't fit him. Let's just say, he was not a "see spot run" kid. He wanted tangible, real, no fantasy stories with action, learning, and logical endings. Try to find that kind of book for a 5-year-old. So, I opened the laptop and began penning a chapter a night of what was originally just The Marsh Chronicles. My son loved it. As soon as it was finished, I followed with The Sun Also Sets and then a while later, The Message.

I am, just a writer on the ridge.