Penny and Susie, and their families return to their favorite Florida resort a year after the first Walter and Mike adventure. The girls are excited to see their alligator friends in their new fun park pool. But the girls have a lesson to learn about borrowing things that dont belong to you without permission. At the same time Walters sister alligator, Cecelia, learns a lesson about keeping things that others may have lost, and she learns what real treasure is.

Kathleen and her husband raised two sons. Their grandsons are a continual source of inspiration for children's stories. Kathleen's career as an industrial educator allowed her to travel extensively throughout the United States and other parts of the world. Her family hobbies of boating and camping in the San Juan Islands and the Cascade Mountains over the years taught her to appreciate the outdoors and the wide variety of animals with which we share the planet.