Annie’s Fish is an adventure novel for kids. It is the story of twelve-year-old Annie Velter, who goes all the way to Africa, by herself, to help her Grandmother study the fish of Lake Tanganyika. But while she’s there, she learns there are great dangers coming to the fish and the lake, and she’s the only one who can help!
This website has been created to talk about the book and its progress, share sample chapters, give background information about the many interesting things discussed in the book (like tropical fish, scuba diving, and Tanzanian hip-hop), provide a link to interesting fish and zoological happenings in the world, and simply talk about writing.
Keep visiting! There are regular blog updates of all kinds, and a comic book serial that is added to every other Monday.
Annie Velter is a seventh grader who lives in Portland, Maine. She is obsessed with going to Tanzania to visit her Grandmother, Dr. Antoinette Beauregard, who works in Lake Tanganyika as an ichthyologist. That means she studies fish, particularly the hundreds of cichlid species who only live in Lake Tanganyika, one of the oldest and deepest lakes in the world. When she’s not preparing for her big trip to Africa by studying Swahili, African pop music, and of course, fish, Annie contributes to AnnieVelter.com whenever she can. After all, the site is named after her!
Gudrun Cram-Drach is a writer and artist who resides in Paris, France. She has been telling stories for much of her life, not just in words but in illustration and animation. She has read her poetry at the West Hollywood Book Fair, writes a bi-weekly column called Secret Life of an Expat for fierceandnerdy.com, and has been to many animation festivals and conferences with her films. Annie’s Fish is her second novel, and her first one for kids.
