The Seal Children
When a fisherman falls in love with a selkie – half-woman, half-seal – she gives him her sealskin as a sign of her love, and bears him two children, Ffion and Morlo, before returning to her own people.

When a stranger comes to the village, telling of a land far away, the children remember their mother’s stories of the cities of gold and pearls beneath the waves….

Presented in a beautiful, new, gift edition, this is a haunting story of love and freedom, for all ages.


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The Seal Children
When a fisherman falls in love with a selkie – half-woman, half-seal – she gives him her sealskin as a sign of her love, and bears him two children, Ffion and Morlo, before returning to her own people.

When a stranger comes to the village, telling of a land far away, the children remember their mother’s stories of the cities of gold and pearls beneath the waves….

Presented in a beautiful, new, gift edition, this is a haunting story of love and freedom, for all ages.


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The Seal Children

The Seal Children

by Jackie Morris
The Seal Children

The Seal Children

by Jackie Morris

Hardcover(Revised edition)

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Overview

When a fisherman falls in love with a selkie – half-woman, half-seal – she gives him her sealskin as a sign of her love, and bears him two children, Ffion and Morlo, before returning to her own people.

When a stranger comes to the village, telling of a land far away, the children remember their mother’s stories of the cities of gold and pearls beneath the waves….

Presented in a beautiful, new, gift edition, this is a haunting story of love and freedom, for all ages.



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781910959473
Publisher: Otter-Barry Books
Publication date: 03/09/2019
Edition description: Revised edition
Pages: 32
Product dimensions: 9.40(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.10(d)
Age Range: 5 - 8 Years

About the Author

About The Author
Jackie Morris is an author and illustrator, photographer and painter. She lives in a small house beside the sea in Wales. Her many books include Tell Me a Dragon, The Snow Leopard, The Wild Swans and the illustrations for Ted Hughes’s How the Whale Became. She has a lively presence on social media and the progress of her work can be followed on her blog: www.jackiemorris.co.uk
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