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Seal Song
Finn loves to swim with the seals in a secret cove. He arrives at the cove one day and rescues a young seal tangled in netting. Finn wishes the seal could live on land. That night the seals sing. ""No good comes from seal songs,"" says Finn's father. When Sheila, a mysterious girl no one has ever seen before, appears on the cannery docks, the fisher folk are uneasy. They b...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
2011
by Orca Book Publishers
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Turnabout is fair play, a theme that is played out nicely in this book. When Finn rescues and feeds a seal that has become tangled in fishing nets, the seal never forgets his kindness. She returns to his village in the form of a girl named Sheila, and even though some townspeople are superstitious about Sheila and think she'll bring bad luck, she and Finn play together. On a day when a storm is threatening, Finn heads out to sea and almost drowns in his over-loaded boat when he loses his oars. S...more
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Seal Song is a magical story and the illustrations are beautiful. However, the story seems to abruptly begin, round itself out in the middle then ubruptly end.
My favorite book about Selkies is Greyling, but I enjoyed this short tale about Finn and his shapeshifting seal friend.
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It's been awhile since I've seen a book about selkies. Makes me want to revisit Mollie Hunter.
Very beautifully illustrated story from a fishing village. Very good.
Understated and sweet, it's the illustrations that sparkle here.
Boy befriends a shape-shifting selkie who saves his life.
Beautiful illustrations. Bittersweet story.
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Shelves:
animals,
behaviour,
community,
culture,
elementary,
enivronment,
friendship,
middle-school,
picture-books,
ocean-life
Feb 16, 2012
Louisa Verma
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Kaethe
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