WHO IS FINNY THE FLYING FISH?
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Finny the flying fish Stories!
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Episode 1
Finny’s Trip
Finny goes to a fishing town and finds danger as a small fish. (SCROLL DOWN TO WATCH FINNYS FIRST ADVENTURE!)
Episode 2
Finny and the Deep Down Cave
Finny finds a mermaid trapped in a cave.
Episode 3
Finny and the Huricane
Finny gets blown away.
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Who is M.R. Greenjacket?
Some Facts about M.R. GreenJacket
M. R. GreenJacket loved the sea and wrote poem stories during storms and hurricanes. Many times he had no paper to write on and so he would scrawl lines of poetry on the backs of sails and brown paper sacks. Later these were collected and made into a book.
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M. R. GreenJacket had a pet shark who would swim to the side of his boat if he sang into the water while blowing bubbles. The shark had a bad tooth and couldn’t chew on one side so he would bring fish for M. R. GreenJacket to cut up and feed back to him. He would not let M. R. GreenJacket look into his mouth and take out the tooth, though.
M.R. GreenJacket & Finny The Flying Fish
During one of his voyages, M. R. GreenJacket encountered Finny the Flying Fish who one night, flew onto the deck of his boat. After this experience, all (10) ten of the Finny stories were written.
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All the Finny stories can be sung as well as read because M. R. GreenJacket heard music notes as the wind blew through the rigging of his boat during a raging storm. This so inspired him that he wrote all the Finny stories so that they could be sung as well as read.
The Vision of M .R. GreenJacket
When M. R. GreenJacket was 8 years old, he had a terrible illness and remembers receiving a bouquet of flowers from a friend who lived down by the seashore near some big rocks. He doesn’t remember what kind of flowers they were, but they were purple and yellow and he believes that they helped him get well.
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M. R. GreenJacket loved all kids and wrote his stories and songs to encourage children who experience difficult times in their lives. His dream was always to connect kids through projects using his stories. He believes that by doing projects for others, there will come an extra bit of courage or encouragement needed for a healing.