Call number
E H
Collection
Genres
Publication
Candlewick (1999), Edition: 2, 48 pages
Description
Washed up on the beach during a storm, the sea-thing child clings fearfully to the shore until he discovers his true destiny.
User reviews
LibraryThing member MeditationesMartini
Kind of bleakly magical--the sea-thing child's bedraggled self hiding in an igloo of stones and then wandering out, the odd creatures encountered, the world of sea and sand made me think of our distant ancestors crawling out of the primordial and looking around on an endless beach for the first
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time (I assume that's how it worked), and burying the traumatic memories of what happened underwater. The characters were peculiar in a kind of a ,i>Labyrinthy or ly way. I liked it although I'm not sure my son's literary palate is evolved enough to get it yet. Show Less
LibraryThing member TheoClarke
Glorious allegory for childhood, friendship and self-discovery. The author's son illustrated the luxurious words with peb-and-ink drawings that never show the sea-thing child and leave it to our imagination.
Awards
V&A Illustration Award (Walker Books -- 2000)
Pages
48
ISBN
0763608475 / 9780763608477