A local celebrity is once again in the spotlight, with a Vancouver author writing a new children’s book starring Emerson the elephant seal.

Emerson made headlines last year after he appeared at a Saanich park to complete his yearly moult, which involves an elephant seal coming on shore for roughly a month to shed their fur and skin.

The adorable juvenile seal, who weighed approximately 500 pounds, did not moult quietly, however, drawing crowds and crossing streets, prompting Fisheries and Oceans Canada to relocate him twice.

He needed to be moved twice because he swam back down to Victoria from Barkley Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island after the first relocation attempt.

Now, Vancouver author Ginger Ngo has written a “light-hearted romp” about Emerson’s adventures in B.C.’s c

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