Spellbinding Bermuda inspires children’s book

Bermuda is full of fascinating quirks from the legend of the triangle to shark-oil barometers.

It is these island quirks and many more that have inspired a new children’s book by author Nick Green.

Green, a Brit whose stepmother and younger brother are Bermudian, has released his book The Storm Bottle as an ebook on Amazon.com

Green remembers an outing he had in Lyme Regis in the UK that would change his life — he was able to get in the ocean with a wild dolphin. The experience would later factor in to the book. He had visited Bermuda on several occasions and on one visit his brother found and antique glass bottle buried in the sand on one of the unpopulated islands.

Pirate treasure

Green recalled: “At the house of a family friend, I marvelled at her own huge bottle collection, like a real-life haul of pirate treasure. And my stepmother told me about the Sea Venture, and about shark-oil barometers, and about hurricanes.

“All of these sparkling fragments sank down into my mind, patiently waiting for that moment when, years later, a swim with a dolphin would bring them bubbling back to the surface. The Storm Bottle came from here. From this extraordinary archipelago lost in the Atlantic. It’s been away a long time, so I’m delighted to announce that at last I can bring it back to where it truly belongs.”

The Storm Bottle recently hit number 4 on Amazon.com’s free teen fiction.