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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 2021
HEALTH NOTIFICATION!
Are You Hard of Hearing?
‘Let’s Go See What Comes from the Sea!’ is
another of Shawn Brigl’s children’s books.
The cover of ‘Little Red Chair & Big Blue Boat’s
Day on the Bay!’
Children’s books: Focus
on teaching young children
about the world around them
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look and act and run, it would be a cute
story,” Brigl said.
Each of the books focuses on teach-
ing young children about the world around
them. Brigl crafted the stories to allow fam-
ilies to actually do the same things as they
read about in the books, she said.
“That was the whole point in my mind,”
Brigl said. “I wanted to teach them on their
level and not just be imagining … I’ll make
it easier for them to learn how and under-
stand how — the young ones especially.”
Brigl, who owns her own vacation
rental cleaning and maintenance company,
said she has long dreamt of publishing her
own books. She wrote the text for her fi rst
two books years ago, though she waited to
release them while looking for a publishing
company.
She pursued traditional publishing
options but found them to be expensive and
diffi cult. Eventually she learned about Kin-
dle Direct Publishing, a free self-publish-
ing platform that links directly with Amazon
and other online bookstores.
“My friend lives in the Philippines and
he bought it through Apple. He’s sent me
a video of their daughter listening while he
reads,” Brigl said.
Around the same time, the coronavi-
rus pandemic caused business at High Tide
Home Cleaning & Yard Maintenance to
slow down. Fewer people were using vaca-
tion rentals so Brigl had less demands from
her day job. That freedom opened up more
time to focus on publishing her stories.
“I would have done it, it just would
have taken me longer because we were
busy,” Brigl said. “I had a golden opportu-
nity during COVID, so I thought, ‘What the
heck? I won’t have to wait until winter when
it slows down.’”
In her own home, Brigl’s books are a hit,
especially with her 2-year-old granddaughter.
“She just loves them … The crabbing one
has crabs falling off the boat, and she points
her fi nger and says, ‘Cabs! Cabs!’ ” Brigl
said. “It’s fun to give to the grandkids. It’s
something grandma did and it’s something
they can have. And she really enjoys reading
it with Poppy, her dad or her mom.”
Brigl said she plans to cut back on her
cleaning and maintenance business this
year to focus more on her farm, family and
books. She is already noticing more every-
day moments that might make good fodder
for her next story.
“Our other puppy is brown and white
… and his name is Captain Jack Sparrow
because he has a brown patch over his eye,”
Brigl said. “I’m thinking Captain Jack on the
high seas.”
Mallory Gruben is the communica-
tions manager for the Tillamook Chamber
of Commerce. She is a contributor for The
Astorian and Coast Weekend.
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