Mom of 3 pens children’s book on Petoskey stones

There’s a new children’s book hitting the shelves as “If a Petoskey Could Talk” written by Brittany Darga and illustrated by Jennifer Franzoni will be for sale at the end of May at local bookstores and online.

“It’s not quite out yet, but it’s getting close,” Darga said. “I’ve always had a children’s book in mind to do, but at the same time when we moved back (to Leelanau) I had little kids and it just wasn’t feasible for me at the time.”

Darga, a Suttons Bay graduate of 2003, moved to Milwaukee for nearly a decade as she earned a master’s degree from Marquette University.