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Age range 3 to 7 I want to build a seahouse A place that's just for me... In a lighthouse on the sea lives a young girl who is about to become a big sister. Trouble is, she doesn't want a little sister. With her peaceful life disrupted, the girl's only option is to run away — and build her very own seahouse! With a foghorn for a doorbell and a fence of fishing rope, windows made of sea glass, buoys to help it float — and a pirate flag for safety (of course), she'll have everything she needs. The girl imagines all of the adventures she'll have, talking parrot in tow: harvesting seaweed from her garden; telling ghost stories to merfolk; charting the tides and sailing by moonlight. But there's a loneliness that creeps in whenever she thinks of her family back on land. And there's those pesky stormy seas to consider... A poetic ode to the childhood yearning for freedom, sprinkled with new-sibling jealousy, the debut picture book by editor Whitney Moran, whimsically illustrated with a magnificent coastal palette by award-winning artist Josée Bisaillon, is a heartfelt story of family and independence, and a celebration of imagination and the natural world.

Table of Contents:
PART ONE _x000D_ CHAPTER ONE August 1931 _x000D_ CHAPTER TWO Impulse _x000D_ CHAPTER THREE Flight _x000D_ CHAPTER FOUR Escape _x000D_ CHAPTER FIVE Consequences _x000D_ CHAPTER SIX Trouble _x000D_ CHAPTER SEVEN Grounded _x000D_ CHAPTER EIGHT Amelia Earhart _x000D_ CHAPTER NINE Guilt _x000D_ CHAPTER TEN Tailwind _x000D_ CHAPTER ELEVEN Reward _x000D_ CHAPTER TWELVE The Gift _x000D_ CHAPTER THIRTEEN Letter _x000D_ CHAPTER FOURTEEN School _x000D_ CHAPTER FIFTEEN More Trouble _x000D_ CHAPTER SIXTEEN Invention _x000D_ CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Ground School _x000D_ CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Joy and Tragedy _x000D_ CHAPTER NINETEEN Final Goodbye _x000D_ PART TWO _x000D_ CHAPTER TWENTY March 1932 _x000D_ CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Finding Amelia _x000D_ CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO The Train _x000D_ CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Stuck _x000D_ CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Decision _x000D_ CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Port aux Basques _x000D_ CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Elizabeth _x000D_ CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Ferry _x000D_ CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Boston _x000D_ CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Rye, New York _x000D_ CHAPTER THIRTY The Putnam House _x000D_ CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Home _x000D_ CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Change _x000D_ CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Louis Reichers _x000D_ CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR Amelia _x000D_ CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE Amelia and Me _x000D_ CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX Preparations _x000D_ CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN Takeoff _x000D_ CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT The Long Night _x000D_ CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE News At Last _x000D_ EPILOGUE September 1932 _x000D_ Photos _x000D_ Photo Credits _x000D_ Author's Note _x000D_ Glossary _x000D_ Acknowledgements

About the Author :
Whitney Moran has always lived by the sea, and never too far away from a lighthouse. She is the managing editor of Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia) and makes her home in a seahouse in West Dover with her partner and their Old English Sheepdog. As a young girl, Josée Bisaillon loved drawing cats and houses. She enjoyed school and always returned home full of stories to tell. She pursued her education all the way to university, where she fell in love with illustration. Since then, scissors and brushes in hand, Josée has illustrated more than 40 picture books, including the Marilyn Baillie Award—winning The Snow Knows.

Review :
I Want To Build a Seahouse is a heartfelt but also humourous story time piece for school and public librarians to share. --CMReviews.com Filled with warmth and whimsy, Whitney Moran's debut picture book is a playful, spirited tale. Rollicking rhymes dance blithely off each page as the seafaring adventuress envisions her new nautical life. With a lilting lyricism, the text is vibrant and energetic and captures a sense of exuberance while also subtly and sensitively depicting the conflicting emotions that a child experiences with the arrival of a new sibling. --Atlantic Books Today The concept is both touching and thoroughly relatable. The inclusive illustrations do a great job of building out the world of the narrative, as the reader can see themself in the neighbourhood of the story. --Quill & Quire The story, told in bouncy quatrains (you can almost hear the hornpipe), is full of nautical imagery.... Whitney Moran's jaunty, seaside-inspired text is matched by rollicking yet soft-edged illustrations by Josée Bisaillon?[who] captures the sea's many moods with swirls of colour.... This Maritime tale offers a lively and unique way for any young seafarer with a new sibling and for landlubbers too. --Canadian Children's Book News


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781774711491
  • Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Nimbus Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 32
  • Width: 254 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1774711494
  • Publisher Date: 03 Apr 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y


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