Kobee Manatee: Heading Home to Florida

Robert Thayer · Tavia Gilbert

Nov 2022 · Thompson Mill Press · Narrated by Tavia Gilbert

About this audiobook

In this first installment of the award-winning Kobee Manatee Children's Educational series by Robert Scott Thayer, the listener is immersed in a lovely story about unconditional friendship. An adorable manatee (Kobee Manatee) with his two new pals (Tess the Seahorse) and (Pablo the Hermit Crab), navigate a 1,200-mile adventure from Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Florida. This adventure tale takes place in early autumn when lowering water temperatures can quickly threaten the life of a warm-blooded manatee. Will Kobee make it safely back to Florida?

About the author

Children's author Robert Scott Thayer, is also a recording artist who writes and sings in the pop, jazz, and children's genres. Robert won several international songwriting awards including those from Billboard. His children's tune, Kobee's Song, produced by Grammy winner Jim Cravero, is fun, upbeat, and has a reggae grove. Kids love it! It's about the clever and adorable marine mammal protagonist wearing a purple cap and a yellow jersey, KOBEE MANATEE, and his ocean adventures in Thayer's award-winning children's educational series. Thayer's mantra, "What Walt Disney's creativity and branding is doing with a mouse, I intend to do with a manatee." Learn more at: KobeeManatee.com and RobertScottThayer.com Earphones winner, Audie finalist, and Parent's Choice Award-winning producer Tavia Gilbert is a classical theater- and public radio-trained actress and producer. She received a BFA in Acting from Cornish College of the Arts. She also studied documentary radio at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine. She produces, directs, and narrates unique audiobooks, full-cast recordings, and documentaries.