Once, when I was teaching a short writing course in Trinidad, a student mentioned that she had written a story for children about a whale washed up on a beach in Trinidad. The overseas publisher to whom she sent it wrote back to say that the story was unrealistic as there were no whales in the Caribbean.
Click on the link below and read this article
http://repeatingislands.com/2011/01/30/orcas-seen-along-western-coast-of-puerto-rico/
Much more waiting to be explored in our stories for children
