Secret Seahorse

by Stella Blackstone, Clare Beaton (Illustrator)

Overview

"The involving quest and appealing fabric collages make this rhyming hide-and-seek tale great for reading together or enjoying alone" — Booklist

Explore the coral reef in this hide-and-seek adventure, now in Barefoot Baby-Proof format! Follow an elusive seahorse as he swims through different underwater environments, meeting a colorful kaleidoscope of sea creatures — including sea anemones, crabs, starfish, eels and octopuses — along the way. The seek-and-find theme featured throughout invites the reader to hunt the seahorse on every page, encouraging interaction with the text and illustrations. Barefoot Baby-Proof books are chewable, bendable, and washable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798888593158
Publisher:	Barefoot Books
Publication date:	08/06/2024
Series:	Barefoot Baby-Proof
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 6.50(h) x 0.12(d)
Age Range:	4 Years

About the Author

Award-winning author Stella Blackstone has written many of Barefoot's best-selling titles, including the Bear series and the Cleo the Cat series. She has been writing for children for over twenty years. Stella lives in Somerset, UK.

Clare Beaton has gained international recognition for her distinctive collages: she hand sews her illustrations using felt, vintage fabrics, buttons and sequins — whatever she can find that can be reused and given a new life. She is an award-winning children's writer and illustrator who lives and works in North London, UK.

Editorial Reviews

"The involving quest and appealing fabric collages make this rhyming hide-and-seek tale great for reading together or enjoying alone" — Booklist

From the Publisher

Aquatic adventure abounds in the gently rhyming Secret Seahorses by Stella Blackstone, illus. by Clare Beaton. Readers can look for evidence of the seahorse that hides on each exquisitely stitched, then photographed, spread. An undersea landscape assembled from fabrics, beads, buttons and sequins are home to jellyfish made of lace, fringe anemones and a mermaid bedecked with beads. A visual glossary helps readers identify and learn about these creatures of the deep. (Mar.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

Fabric collages ornamented with buttons, beads, and sequins make visually arresting illustrations for this simple story about an elusive seahorse. The unnamed (and unseen) first-person narrator spots the single tan seahorse in the first spread and searches for him on subsequent double-page spreads. Though the rhyming text asserts that the seahorse can't be found, children will enjoy discovering a glimpse of the shy creature on each spread, concluding with the discovery of an entire family of seahorses. The last section of the volume-also illustrated with fabric collages-includes basic information about coral reefs, sea creatures, and seahorses. The needlework illustrations are more appropriate to the fictional portion of the work than to introducing specific species to children, but overall the volume will serve as a creative introduction to the undersea environment of the coral reef or as supplemental material for early-elementary classroom studies. (Picture book. 3-8)

Kirkus Reviews