Mermaid Galene

Meet Faerie Mermaid Galene. Her name sounds like "gull" (the bird) - "LEAN" (like when you're tilting to one side) - "knee" (a part on a leg, which most mermaids don't have). Galene is a water faerie. That means she's part mermaid and part faerie. Sometimes she has wings! Her close friends are dolphins, manta rays, whales, and especially seahorses. Her very best friend is Salty Stuart the Pirate. He is also her husband, so that works out well.

Galene loves all the animals of the earth. She talks to sea turtles and bright little shrimp, red as a tulip. She sings with meadowlarks and chitters with chickadees, and she's been known to swap jokes with a fox. She helps bluebirds clean house and mice find their way under the snow. She uses faerie magic to help flowers grow, so that butterflies and moths can thrive. Galene's favorite moth is the Luna.

Salty Stuart the Pirate, Galene's husband, is the most mild-mannered and good-humored of nautical scallawags. He's also a musician of rare talent, excelling in unusual instruments like hammered dulcimer, concertina, bowed psaltry, and tsimbl. From them he draws sounds both lively and lyrical. He loves animals and children and nature, and especially Mermaid Galene.

When not out having adventures in libraries, lakes, or on the Seven Seas, Galene and Salty Stu (aka Diane Rains and Stu Janis) live with goldfishes, seahorses, dogs, moths, and bluebirds beside a lovely, wild prairie in Wisconsin.

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