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

Descend into the depths of the vast blue sea to meet all kinds of aquatic creatures. This hide-and-seek, rhyming selection follows the search for a speedy seahorse through the astonishing coral reef. The paperback edition includes educational notes at the end with information about seahorses and coral reefs and the creatures that live there.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781905236152
Publisher:	Barefoot Books
Publication date:	01/01/2004
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	6.62(w) x 6.50(h) x 0.79(d)
Age Range:	1 - 7 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

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

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

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