This is the Jonathan Livingston Seagull of shells. A spiritual

journey of four shells who lay on a beautiful beach waiting to be

crunched to death. The story is about the joy of living and the peace

of accepting death as a natural transition into the Oneness of all

things.

Elizabeth Monroy was inspired to write The Little Shell in Captiva,

Florida the largest shelling beach in the world where she and her

husband, Peter lived and vacationed for many wonderful years. She

wrote The Little Shell in the same cottage that Anne Morrow Lindbergh

wrote Gifts from the Sea and walked the beach every day mediating on

the pages.

After she had finished the book she was approached by a woman from

Hospice who suggested that she write a children's book to help

children deal with death and grief, she realized she already had.