Love of Life

An story of magical sea creatures in health crisis written and illustrated by Celine, 9 yrs

This eleven-page storybook is authored by Celine, a regular patient at Benioff Children’s Hospital over the last three years. During Celine’s initial eight month hospital stay she became an enthusiastic participant in weekly art therapy sessions with Shalene Hatton, LMFT, ATR. As Celine’s heath has improved she has become a prolific artist, creating artwork independently at home and during her shorter hospital stays, she’s also a natural story-teller, a Chinese opera enthusiast, English as a second-language-learner, and lover of life.

In an undersea world there's a beautiful undersea castle!

There is a grand wedding in it. The bride and groom are magical creatures, Deerfish. Bride's name is Kerrily. Groom's name Stephen!

Another year has passed. They gave birth to a beautiful baby! It's a girl, she is Katie.

Time flies. Katie becomes an eight-year old girl. She likes playing the piano best.

But her daughter contracted a disease that is particularly common in the underwater world, the biggest change for the patient is the shedding of antlers.

The nurse told her that there was a medicine to cure her daughter's illness: But it's too expensive.

She told her husband everything the nurse told him

He is very hard working because they want to buy the medicines

After hard work they finally bought the medicines

Her daughter drank the potion

Soon she recovered and got a puppy