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Our copy is an old library one,much dog-earred and tatty.I recall reading for hours from it....beware it is addictive,told in rhyming verse with the most amazing illustrations.The characters are sublime and the moral tale a good lesson for us all.
I would urge all parents to give this,and his other books,a place on your childs bookshelf. They will remember it forever!
When too young to appreciate the long and somewhat advanced details of the story, I still loved it for the sing-songy sound of the verse, the wonderfully intricate and often personified illustrations, and best of all: searching the jampacket pages for the tiny sign of the seahorse hidden on each page (which I'm surprised no one has metioned yet!). As I got older and was able to read and better understand the story itself I loved it even more for that. It's the kind of book that a child can appreciate more and more as he/she grows, even if it isn't all appreciated initially.
I'm half-way through college now and I still love this book, and look at it every time I go home and see it sitting on the coffee table with the other Graeme books. I'll definately have this for my kids when I have some.
The story line is really interesting because although we are reading about fish and creatures that live in the sea, it pertains to the types of situations one lives and reads about on a daily basis.
It is very easy to feel sympathy for the main charaters and dislike the 'bad guys'. Each charater has such personality and charm in their own way. The way in which the central charaters overcame their problems was diplomatic and handled very nicely, for a bunch of fishy charaters. Not too much fighting or nastiness.
The illustrations get 5 stars too. Rarely will one see the attention to detail, complex drawings and beautiful colours as are illustrated in Graeme Base books.
There is usually a hidden meaning, specific charater or other very interesting thing about each of his books. It makes you want to go back time after time.
Other books by Graeme Base well as Sign Of The Seahorse are Anamaila, and The Eleventh Hour. Each book is equally as good as the other.
We have had Graeme Base books for about 10 years, we still enjoy reading them and finding new 'somethings' we somehow missed before.
I highly reccomend any of his books from newborn to Grandparents.
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