Birds Dislike This and Dislike That

Brandie Grasso lives on the Texas Gulf Coast where she cares for the real-life Henry and Henrietta. Brandie decided to write a series of children's books about the joy of rehabbing and her personal studies in shamanism. While researching the series, she discovered a yellowed newspaper clipping from the 1950s with a picture showing her grandfather, Joseph Grasso Jr., kneeling next to two brown pelicans. The caption detailed how the Texas governor commissioned her grandfather to procure some wild pelicans for Buckingham Palace, at the request of Her Majesty, Elizabeth II, the Queen of England. This extraordinary royal pelican connection from Brandie's family history inspired the origin of the Royal Pelican Tales.