Kate Coombs
Illustrated by Meilo So
Poetry Picture Book
For ages 6 to 9
Chronicle Books, 2012, 978-0-8118-7284-3
When you go down to
the sea, you are presented with a whole new world, a world where there is an
open sky, where the seagulls fill the air with their cries, and where boats can
take you away from the land. As you sail out to where “the water sings blue and
the sky does too” you leave behind the pier, “its pilings huddled and dull.”
Here the waves have
many voices, depending on the weather and the wind. Some days the waves “swell
and sigh” while on others they “wake and roar.”
Beneath the
surface, little fish swim, hoping against hope that they are not seen by a
hungry shark. Jelly fish drift, their tentacles like a “kimono trialing.”
In the deep “where
the sea feels like a grave,” oarfish and gulper eels lurk in the dark. Perhaps
a blue whale will dive down to these places, where shipwrecks sit on the bottom
“far from home / under gallons of seas.”
This extraordinary
book takes us from the land, out to sea, beneath the waves, and then back to
the tide line. We meet some of the creatures who make the sea their home, and
come to appreciate how this watery world is a place full of mystery and
contradictions.
With gorgeous
watercolor illustrations on every page, and beautifully atmospheric poems, this
is a book readers of all ages will enjoy exploring.
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