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On a very dark and stormy night the Sea -Thing Child is thrown up onto the beach in this children’s book. The next morning the Sea-

Thing Child lay – “a little black heap of scales and feathers, all alone”

The Sea – Thing Child was too little to swim very well and he hadn’t learned to fly yet. “He was nothing but a little draggled heap of fright”.

Russell Hoban the author immediately holds the readers attention by placing our terrified Sea- Thing Child in a very dire situation. At the same time laid back humour is an integral element of this kid’s book.

Our Sea – Thing Child is made for the deep diving and high flying but right now he is afraid of the ocean. He just needs to survive after his battering by the stormy sea.

On the beach is a fiddler crab that has no bow who meets up with the Sea – Thing Child. The two of them have a special relationship of friendship where they both help each other to cope with the circumstances that they are in.

As time goes by the Sea – Thing Child grows in confidence and he then finds his star in the night sky. This is the signal for him to return to the ocean in which he was born.

The illustrations by Patrick Benson are outstanding in this children’s book and are full of feelings. The book’s green rating evaluation is  a Touch Green.

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