Island girl,
ocean storyteller.
CARIBBEAN · CORAL REEFS · ISLAND LIFE
I'm Trinity, born on a tiny dot of an island called Utila, raised in the Caribbean with salt and the sun, falling in love with the ocean and wanting to spread the love. Wanting to sohw children the ocean and hope they fall in love with it the same way I did and maybe will want to grow up and become the next generation of ocean lovers and conservationists.
A rhyming reef adventure for ages 3–6 · signed copies available
Dotto Meets the Corals
The Book
Dotto's Ocean Adventures · Book One
32
PAGES
3-6
AGESRhyme
READ-ALOUD
Free
ACTIVITY PACK
Follow Dotto, a curious little cowfish, as she drifts across a sun-dappled Caribbean reef and befriends the corals who live there — wise Brain Coral, tall Staghorn, and gentle Elkhorn. Told in soft, lilting rhyme, it's a first lesson in loving the ocean and keeping it clean, written for little hands and read-aloud nights.
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A gentle, rhyming picture book about a tiny fish, a hurting reef, and the big difference small acts of kindness can make.
Meet Dotto, a curious baby cowfish who loves exploring her coral reef. But when she meets Elkhorn Coral, who has lost all his color, Dotto learns that her ocean home needs help. With her wise coral friends, she discovers what's making the reef sick, and how caring, together, can help it heal.
Written in playful read-aloud rhyme and brought to life with bright, friendly art, Dotto Meets the Corals introduces children ages 3 to 8 to coral reefs, ocean animals, and simple ways to protect the sea, all wrapped in a warm story about kindness and hope.
Inside you'll also find: • A "Meet the Real Reef" page matching Dotto and her friends to the real corals and fish they're based on • Kid-friendly fun facts about coral reefs • Easy, real-world ways little readers can help the ocean • A free downloadable Ocean Activity Pack full of games and coloring
Created by Trinity, who grew up snorkeling the reefs of a tiny Caribbean island, this is a story made to spark a lifelong love of the ocean, one little reader at a time.
Perfect for bedtime, classrooms, and any child who loves animals, the sea, and saving the day.
This is the extra-special one. Every signed copy of Dotto Meets the Corals is personalized and signed by hand, by me.
When you order, just tell me the child's name and I'll write it inside the book along with a little message and my signature. It turns the story into a keepsake they'll hold onto long after they've outgrown it.
The book itself: Dotto, a curious baby cowfish, sets off on her first adventure across the coral reef, where she meets the wise Brain Coral and the cheerful Staghorn Coral. Together they discover how wonderful (and how fragile) their home beneath the sea really is, and how we can all help protect it. Written in rhyme with bright, colourful illustrations, it's perfect for little ones aged 3–8, with coral fun facts and a reef guide in the back to keep exploring.
I grew up on Utila, a tiny island off the coast of Honduras surrounded by these reefs, so this story is close to my heart, and getting to sign it for your little one means the world to me.
A few quick things:
Pop the child's name into the personalization fields at checkout so I know who to sign it to.
Buying for more than one child? Add each copy to your cart separately so every name comes out right.
From a tiny island
to a big blue mission.
My Story
I grew up on Utila, a speck of an island in the Bay Islands of Honduras, where my parents ran a scuba diving centre and the sea was practically the family business. I learned to read the reef before I could read books — which corals were thriving, which were turning pale, which fish had come home for the season.
That childhood became a calling. My conservation work earned support from the National Geographic Society and the Nature Conservancy, and even now, from my home in Madrid, the reef is never far from my mind. I wrote Dotto's story so the children who'll inherit the ocean fall in love with it first — because we protect what we love.
-Trinity
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National Geographic Society grantee
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Nature Conservancy grantee
〰️ National Geographic Society grantee 〰️ Nature Conservancy grantee
Peek inside the reef activity pack
Pop in your name and email and I'll send you a few free pages from Dotto's activity pack: colouring, a coral-matching game, and a little reef pledge. The complete pack is printed inside every copy of the book.
✔ 3 free printable pages to try
✔ A read-aloud discussion card
✔ Print at home, no app needed