The Girl and the Sea Lion

Mia comes to the Sea Lion Rescue Center wearing her yellow hood and rain jacket, with a sketchbook in hand and a wish to learn how to help animals. There she meets Dr. Lena, a patient veterinarian with silver glasses, who shows her Pip, a young sea lion healing from a hurt flipper. With guidance from Dr. Lena and cheerful help from Mr. Hayes, a volunteer who prepares the fish, Mia learns how injured sea lions are cared for: wounds are cleaned and bandaged, medicine is tucked inside fish, and the animals receive the quiet, gentle handling they need.

Watching Pip practice swimming again, Mia comes to understand that helping wild animals differs from making them pets. Dr. Lena explains why people should never touch, feed, or crowd wild sea lions, and why respect and patience matter as much as kindness. Mia turns her sketchbook into a small booklet of rules and drawings so other children can learn the same lessons. Written by Çınar BİBER, this gentle story can be read on Masalcı Baba and suits children beginning to read longer tales.