an inch above — never touching wind ESE, force 4 — she chose it the song arrived before the singer first attempt. she forgave me. THE ELEANOR GREER ROOM her studio · her library inside Heron Point light HERON POINT step inside Eleanor's lighthouse
Oregon Oceanographic Museum · Act IV

The Eleanor Greer Room

Seabirds · seven seas · one unfinished notebook

move through the room — touch the works, open the case

The Cormorant COFFEE & TIDES whale sightings: ask Walt the grey coat ASTORIA — FERRY DEP 07:40 · SEAT: OUTSIDE MOVEMENT I · AUDUBON Heron Point the 101 — worth the fog 2 THIS NOTEBOOK BELONGS TO E. GREER and now to ____________ 3 PLATE II Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias "He is not patient. He is certain. There is a difference, and the fish knows it too late." payne's grey, a breath of ochre 7 THE LAMP-ROOM · JULY first attempt. she forgave me. 18 "I have spent thirty-eight years drawing wings. Today I saw a gray whale breach. They fly too. Slower — but they fly." 19 SEA I · OREGON knuckles — nine, today Margaret Eschrichtius robustus · gray whale "She rose like a hill deciding to move. I no longer say a whale. I say Margaret." SEAL 23 SEA III · LISBOA Maré Megaptera novaeangliae · humpback "Her tail is a fingerprint; no two in any ocean match." her not her her? right half from life. left half from memory — unfair to her. 31 SEA VII · MUMBAI "Mine is smaller, and slower these days, and still it Balaenoptera musculus — too large for the page 46 finish it. 47 MOVEMENT III · THE RETURN DIPLOMA POCKET WHEN THE SEVEN ARE DONE "The watch is yours now. — E.G." "Glad it was you. There are three of us now. — W." For the eighth sea. 55
Wall texts · The Eleanor Greer Room
Museum label · Provenance

Born with the film, not after it

This notebook was not designed as merchandise. It was extracted, page by page, from the screenplay of The Summer We Saw Margaret. In the film, it is the object on Walt's shelf — the unfinished atlas of seven seas that Eleanor left behind, and the commission a six-year-old boy inherits in Act III. Every plate in this facsimile corresponds to a beat of the script; the half-painted whale of Mumbai is the story's inciting silence; the plates that hang in this room are the ones a family stands before in Act IV. The film and the object were written together — which is why neither feels like an accessory to the other.

"She got as far as the big one." — W.

Exhibition catalogue · Licensing one-sheet

Eleanor's Notebook — Facsimile Edition

The product

A5 cloth-bound facsimile of the film's central prop. ~88 pages in three movements: Eleanor's finished seabird plates, her unfinished atlas of the seven seas, and the new keeper's pages. Seven seal die-cuts linked to Miru's Ocean Atlas — the studio's EdTech property, available for licensing to schools and families under separate negotiation. Diploma pocket, four printed ephemera inserts. Collector object and guided field journal — two retail shelves at once.

The model

License, not production. IP Frontier Studio licenses publishing and manufacturing rights; the licensee produces under studio art direction. Standard terms: advance + 8–10% royalty, studio approval rights on materials and print quality, 18–24 month reversion clause.

The proof

The digital facsimile demonstrates every page type and the complete emotional arc; the full 88-page pagination map is delivered on signature, with remaining art finished under studio direction as part of the licensing agreement.

Price point (B2C)

Core edition $29.99–34.99. Collector's boxed edition — wax-seal kit, numbered — $49.99–59.99.

Target licensees

Premium gift & stationery publishers; children's publishers with novelty and gift divisions; museum retail groups.

Channels & timing

Museum and aquarium gift shops — the seven real aquariums of the Atlas form a natural retail circuit — independent bookshops, premium gift retail, D2C synchronized with the film. Launches pre-film as a standalone; collector reprint at release.

The film's central prop, sold as the product. The reader finishes what Eleanor began — on paper and in the Atlas.

Exhibition catalogue · Editorial universe map

One canon, five doors

Rights licensed under Model B — studio licenses, publisher produces under studio approval. Bundled or separable. Standard terms: advance + royalties, approval rights, 18–24 month reversion.

Full architecture, chapter arc and sample illustrated plates of every title are available under NDA — the map above is an inventory, not a promise.

1 · Margaret — board book · 2–4 · 20pp · pre-film

A gray whale travels the longest road in the sea and comes back every summer. Shapes, rhythm, and one white mark to find on every page. The brand's entry door for the youngest sibling.

2 · Eleanor's Birds — illustrated album · 4–8 · 48pp · pre-film

Thirty-eight years of seabirds, painted and annotated by a naturalist who timed cormorants and argued with oystercatchers — until the day a gray whale breached off the point and her brush changed forever. Ends where the film begins.

3 · Walt's Lighthouse — junior novel · 8–12 · ~150pp · film window

A merchant sailor takes the quietest job on the coast and finds the loudest love of his life. The Society of two, the dog named Captain, and the notebook left on a shelf.

4 · The Summer We Saw Margaret — picture book · 4–8 · 72pp · tie-in

The official adaptation, synchronized with release: a boy, a tired mother, a ferry into the fog, and the whale who knew Eleanor.

5 · The Art of — collector edition · kidult · post-film

Development art, the signal that started it, Eleanor's plates at full size.

Note

Eleanor's Notebook (facsimile field journal) reaches market separately via the gift & stationery licence — see the panel above. One canon, two shelves, zero overlap.

Five formats, five buyers, one timeline — covering ages 2 to adult without touching the film's beats before release.

The Eleanor Greer Room · The Summer We Saw Margaret · IP Frontier Studio — digital exhibition proof