Silver Medal Winner - Young Voices Book Awards. Jules is a dog with simply nothing to do. He lives at a beautiful lighthouse but dreams of being someplace else. Then one very fateful day causes Jules to change his point of view. Join Jules as he discovers that the excitement he was looking for was right in front of him all the time. Enjoy other books by this author including KID CANINE-SUPERHERO! a National Best Books Award 2009 FINALIST, and JUST PERFECT:MORE ADVENTURES OF JULES THE LIGHTHOUSE DOG, a 2009 Indie Book Awards Finalist.
P.T. Custard was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. She spent her "wonder years" in Baltimore, Maryland. A graduate of Colorado State University, P.T. focused her first career on informal education working for the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, as the Director of Education for the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, Oregon and as a Senior Associate for the Institute of Learning Innovation in Annapolis, Maryland. During this career she authored award-winning curriculum-based books used in classrooms nationwide.
Encouraged by friends she decided to launch her second career as a children's book author/publisher. Her first book JULES THE LIGHTHOUSE DOG was inspired by her time living at the Pt. Loma lighthouse with her family dog Jules. Her publishing company, Black Plume Books, was named to honor P.T.'s Baltimore roots - a nod to Baltimore's favorite adopted son, Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven - and for the love of the big, black birds she developed while living in Alaska.
Married to a Coast Guard officer, P.T. has grown accustomed to moving VERY frequently and counts Oregon and Alaska as two of her favorite places in which she has lived. She currently lives in Juneau, Alaska with her husband Buddy and her Shetland Sheepdogs, Dill - the star of P.T.'s second book, KID CANINE-SUPERHERO! - and Truman.
