Melo the Flawless Walrus: A Story About Parts of You That Don't Need Fixing

Melo has a broken tusk - short on one side, long on the other. He thinks about it approximately never.His anxious seagull friend Nigel has other ideas. He shows up with seaweed glue, a spare narwhal horn, and a melting ice tusk, all to "fix" a walrus who was never broken in the first place. But when a storm threatens the beach's Grand Talent Show and a knotted tent rope needs exactly one short, stubby tusk to pop it loose, it turns out Melo's "flaw" was the whole solution.A funny, warm picture book for kids ages 3-8 about the kind of confidence that never needed fixing - and the grown-ups who read it to them tend to like it too.Plus a bonus "More of Melo" epilogue with five new full-color scenes: Melo starts a beach house band, fishes something mysterious out of a tide pool, and meets a shy new friend who needed to see one flawless walrus before coming out from behind her rock."Not flawed. Flawless."