By Russell Hoban (author) , Patrick Benson (illustrator)
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One stormy night a bedraggled heap of scales and feathers is flung up on the beach. The sea-thing child meets a fiddler crab with no bow. They help each other to avoid facing their fears but finally he finds his star, his courage and his ocean self.
Russell Hoban was born in Pennsylvania, USA. His parents were Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine; his father was the advertising manager of a Jewish newspaper as well as a dram guild director. Russell was thus exposed to the arts early on, and became interested in writing at an early age, winning prizes for his stories and poems during his school years.
Russell served in the US Infantry during WWII. For a time he taught art in New York and Connecticut. He then worked as a freelance illustrator and an advertising copywriter. He began publishing children's books in 1958, and since then has published more than fifty. His picture book The Sea-Thing Child , illustrated by Patrick Benson, was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Russell passed away at the age of 86 in 2011.
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One stormy night a bedraggled heap of scales and feathers is flung up on the beach. The sea-thing child meets a fiddler crab with no bow.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Sea-Thing Child and determined it is suitable for children aged 7-8 years old
The Sea-Thing Child features in the following genres: Featured Books for 7+ readers, Fantasy / Magical, Children’s picture books, Recommendations, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s: picture books, activity books, early learning concepts
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The Sea-Thing Child was written by Russell Hoban and published by Walker
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