It’s just after midnight on Walton Wharf West, but there’s no time for sleeping―adventure awaits! Get dressed, grab your oars, let’s not delay. Lou Dozens is here, and we’re sailing to Firelight Bay!
In this modern, young, bold, and inventive adventure, Lou drags her more cautious friend on a daring voyage across the sea. Though their destination is a glorious land of year-round summers, long slides, and picnics a hundred yards wide, the children there have never seen rain, even once.
The mission is simple: bring Firelight Bay a cloud in a jar. But the journey is anything but. Readers will delight in the story’s twists, turns, and unexpected solutions―from a sail of patchwork handkerchiefs to a net crafted from recycled cell phone chargers that saves a beached whale. It’ll take every knick knack in Lou’s pockets and all the cleverness the pair can muster to safely deliver their gift.
With captivating illustrations and whimsical yet delightfully intricate rhyming text reminiscent of classic children’s poetry, this seafaring quest is one young readers will not soon forget.---from the publisher
32 pages 978-1645679936 Ages 4-8
Keywords: fantasy and magic, clouds, problem solving, quest, 4 year old, 5 year old, 6 year old, 7 year old, 8 year old
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I truly enjoyed this beautiful book until I came to the page where the murmuration appears and it is portrayed in a way that looks threatening. For me murmurations are one of nature's most beautiful mysteries. So sorry to see that portrayal in a book that could influence young listeners to fear the flocks in the skies and all around us. We need all of our birds and our next generations of humans will be their caretakers. Let's teach them well now.
Barb Langridge, abookandahug.com
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