Just completed two picture book projects. SKYCAT is a humorous story about a farmer whose cat suddenly decides to fly. After many failed attempts to get the cat down, he and his dog come up with an ingenious plan. THIS LITTLE TURTLE is a take-off on "This little piggy went to market." It follows a young sea turtle from birth to her eventual return to the same beach in order  to lay her own eggs. The story has a conservationists perspective, and I think it would fit in quite nicely with the elementary education's common core standards.