Nelson’s Dangerous Dive - Children's Book

The Wild Tribe Heroes books are a collection of gentle and engaging true stories about animals that find themselves in trouble when their lives are affected by plastic in the oceans, palm oil deforestation or climate change. Follow each one of our heroes to see what happens, how they are saved and what you can do to help them! Children and adults alike will love these books and feel inspired to make positive changes to their own lives and their communities.

Written by Cornish author Ellie Jackson, these books are beautifully illustrated and printed sustainably in the UK using FSC-approved sources.

Nelson’s Dangerous Dive

Nelson’s Dangerous Dive goes deep underwater with Nelson the Whale where he discovers a hidden shipwreck and learns that what lurks below may not let you go. As he desperately signals for help, luck is on his side as a group of brave tourists give him the break he needs!

The third book in the Wild Tribe Heroes series, Nelson’s Dangerous Dive is the engaging story of the relationship between the actions of humans and wildlife and the dangers they face in their own natural habitats. Nelson’s Dangerous Dive is perfect as a bedtime story or to share with your school or preschool. It is an exciting story based on the true events after a humpback whale became entangled in ghost fishing nets.

• Learn how ghost nets can harm our animals and birds
• Help children to understand the link between plastic and wildlife
• Explains what ghost nets are and how we can all help
• Perfect for a bedtime story and to share with your school
• Great for parents, grandparents, preschool and primary school

But this book teaches children about more than the dangers. It also helps them understand the importance of looking after our environment, and how they can help all in a fun and friendly way, with ideas and activities which reinforce the story's message that this is a planet for all and that sea creatures have feelings too.

About the Author

Ellie Jackson is a mother of four young children who has written a series of books to help educate children about the impact of plastics on ocean ecosystems.

Ellie lives by the sea in Looe, Cornwall, and wrote her first book after living on Magnetic Island in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, during which time, she and her young family saw a turtle called Duffy being released back into the ocean after a year of treatment for ingesting plastic. “My children and I were transfixed by the sight of this beautiful creature being set free, and subsequently visited a turtle hospital on the mainland to find out more. Once my children had made the link between plastics and turtles they were inspired to pick up litter from beaches so that they could help protect turtles and other sea life.”

In this way, Ellie, an environmental scientist who taught geography for six years, conceived her idea to use children’s books as a way of educating young people about the threat to sea life of our dependence on plastic.