RON CHARACH is the author of Lemily by the Sea, a picture book that celebrates the need for human company and friendship. The author of a dozen books for adults. Ron believes in the healing power of rhythm and rhyme, of reading poems aloud and committing them to memory. For more than forty years, he has helped young people and their families communicate with one another. In this book, the lifting of COVID restrictions finds two parents so eager to go on a shopping spree that they put their kids on hold. The children's soaring zeal for adventure, enabled by a few magical powers, winds up teaching each member of the family a valuable life lesson.