by Lou Schick

Illustrated by Lara B. Sorensen

Persa's Breeze was first told on the bow of a sloop off Montauk. This story tells of a girl whose curiosity pushes her to try things outside her comfort and experience. When Persa gets in trouble far away from home, she overcomes her fear and innovates a solution to her problem with far-reaching benefits for her family and village.

Lou Schick is a dilettante, trained as a particle physicist, worked as a high school teacher and now doing investing in clean-energy technologies.

Lara B. Sorensen's paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout New York. Having lived and traveled extensively in the U.S., Europe, India and Nepal, Sorensen returned to her childhood home of upstate New York in 1998, where she lives and paints in the Adirondack Park.