Noah's Seal

Written & illustrated by Layn Marlow

A boy's sand seal may come to life as a storm approaches the sea.

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32 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Noah eagerly waits for his Nana to fix their sailboat, dreaming of seals in the sea. To pass the time, he crafts a seal from sand, complete with shells and seaweed. As a storm rolls in, Noah takes cover, later wondering if his creation swam away. Dive into this enchanting tale where imagination blurs with reality, leaving young adventurers to ponder the mystery of the sand seal's fate.

From the publisher

In a picture-perfect ode to the perfect day at the beach, a young boy experiences the joys of being left alone to play and dream at the edge of a wild sea. Waiting is hard. In a gentle multigenerational story that blurs the boundaries of real and imagined, Noah waits on shore while Nana fixes their sailboat. The boat will take them out to sea where the seals live, and Noah can hardly contain himself. In the meantime, he sculpts his own seal out of sand. Noah collects shells for the seal’s speckled back, spiky dune grass for whiskers, two shiny pebbles for eyes, and a smiling line of seaweed for a mouth. He lies beside his new friend to watch the rolling sea until a storm blows in and Noah must take cover. Later, he wonders: did his seal swim away? Readers will delight in pondering the mystery too in this sun-splashed book for young adventurers–an essential summer-vacation read.

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