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The Seal Children (Hardcover)

by Jackie Morris (Author) "There is a place on the edge of Wales where fields and moorlands meet, where heather and gorse slope down to high cliffs ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 32 pages
  • Publisher: Frances Lincoln Childrens Books; New edition edition (1 Jun 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1845070402
  • ISBN-13: 978-1845070403
  • Product Dimensions: 28 x 23.6 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 832,635 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"The complexity of these stories is given powerful expression in Morris's beautifully composed, emotionally charged illustrations."

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When a fisherman called Ewan falls in love with a selkie - half-woman, half-seal - she gives him her sealskin as a sign of her love, and bears him two children, Ffion and Morlo, before returning to her own people. A few years later a stranger comes to the village, telling of a land far away, and Ffion and Morlo remember their mother's stories of the cities of gold and pearls beneath the waves...This is a beautiful, atmospheric story of love and freedom, and the first picture book written and illustrated by Jackie Morris.

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5.0 out of 5 stars review from gwales website, 8 Nov 2004
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Tales of seals and selkie maidens are commonplace around the coasts of
Britain, and provide rich beachcombings for retellers of folk tales and
maritime legends, but here, in her first 'complete' work as both author and
illustrator, Jackie Morris paints new life into old traditions.

Setting the scene in her home area of St David's, she weaves a convincing
tale around the ruined cottages of Maes y Mynydd, a stone's throw from her
own cottage, providing, through the generosity of her imaginary seal-woman,
the wherewithal for its 19th century inhabitants to leave their lives of
poverty and hardship and sail across the seas to the New World, as many
Welsh emigrants really did.

For Huw, the fisherman who falls in love with the maiden, only to lose her,
as all human husbands must, to the sound of the sea and the seals, there is
the added loss of his son Morlo who chooses to live with his mother beneath
the waves, once their gift has been made. Yet his daughter Ffion sails with
him from Fishguard Harbour, to a prosperous future made possible by a tiny
casket of lustrous pearls, tied with golden ribbons of kelp.

The lyrical verse-like qualities of the text rest at ease with the wistful
landscapes of the West Wales coastline, painted with that clarity and
attention to detail which make them instantly recognisable to the book's
local readers, and so compelling to first-time virtual visitors to these
fingers of gorse-lined land pulled sometimes gently, often savagely into the
open sea, as if by Huw's haunting music. These recurring landscapes, subtly
altered as the story unfolds, and brought alive by a flash of silver
scales, a cluster of lobster pots or a glimpse of scarlet Welsh flannel,
provide the perfect setting for this tale of one family's loss and loyalty,
and one community's old memories and new dreams, made possible by Morlo
and Ffion, the seal children.

Chris S. Stephens

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