Our Books
We are a husband and wife team (Eve + Rett = Everett Taylor) on a mission to inspire ocean wonder! We bring each rhyming tale to life with paper, pencil and paint.
We recommend our colorful picture books for kids ages: 4-8 (preK, kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade)
Colorful + Captivating
Readers tell us they love the vibrant colors in our books!
Rett draws the animals, and both Eve and Rett hand paint them. Eve paints the backgrounds.
We have so much fun creating them together.
mishaps + being different
Accidentally on Porpoise
Dive into a colorful undersea misadventure of a young porpoise that meets a hungry shark!
It’s packed with ocean animals, a kind message about being different, and a wild ride.
An informative back spread reveals more about the real sea life featured in the book, including how echolocation works.
Written + illustrated by our founders, Eve + Rett (Everett) Taylor. Rhyming picture book for ages 4-8.
ocean ID guide
A.B. and the 7 Seas
An around-the-world ocean adventure written + illustrated by our founders, Eve + Rett (Everett) Taylor.
This colorful ocean ID book will quickly become a family favorite, especially for ages 4-8.
Jam-packed with 77 ocean wonders (2-3 for each letter of the alphabet), “A.B. and the 7 Seas” inspires curiosity, discovery, exploration, and appreciation for the ocean’s amazing creatures.
finding home + camouflage
mira, the misfit sea dragon
Mira is a wandering sea dragon (a fish related to seahorses) who is beautiful in the most unique of ways, but just can’t seem to find where she belongs.
She roams the ocean, encountering many places and creatures, but none of these places feel quite right. Where will Mira find her home where she belongs?
Written + illustrated by our founders, Eve + Rett (Everett) Taylor. Rhyming picture book for ages 4-8.
undersea hide-and-seek
Zale's Tales 2: The Ocean Seeker
When Zale discovers new friends with magic pearls just like his own, they team up for a thrilling game of hide-and-seek.
The magical game takes them from the cold sea of the North Pole to undersea kelp forests, kingdoms of coral reefs, the dark deep, and to the icy waters of the South Pole.
Join Zale on his exciting new adventure, as he combs the ocean realm, searching near and far for his new friends as they transform into sea animals!
Written + illustrated by our founders, Eve + Rett (Everett) Taylor. Rhyming picture book for ages 4-8.
magical undersea adventure
Zale's Tales 1: The Quest for the Magic Pearl
A young boy named Zale finds a beautiful, violet pearl that sweeps him away into the ocean blue – as a sailfish!
When the pearl slips from his grasp, Zale transforms into different ocean animals to find his prized pearl and his way home. It’s an exciting adventure that spans the ocean depths and reveals amazing sea life along the way.
Written + illustrated by our founders, Eve + Rett (Everett) Taylor. Rhyming picture book for ages 4-8.
undersea Halloween
Shalloween
When Ray the flashlight fish gets scared, he starts to glow. As he comes across an undersea Halloween party at an old shipwreck, he encounters the strangest of creatures.
While at first, the Halloween monsters give Ray a fright, he soon realizes that his new friends the ghost crab, the vampire squid, the goblin shark and many more are the perfect friends to spend time with at Halloween!
Written + illustrated by our founders, Eve + Rett (Everett) Taylor. Rhyming picture book for ages 4-8.
