A PIECE OF THE SEA

«Un bout de mer» | Ingrid Chabbert & Raul Guridi | Frimousse, France | 36pp | 25 x 20.5 cm

Ali lives, at the gates of the desert, with his great grandmother, in a tiny dirt house. For the past weeks, she has started to have difficulties walking and he is worried. The little boy wonders if she has realised all her dreams. All her little girl and woman’s dreams it seems but one: seeing the sea. Sadly, her old legs can’t carry here there anymore. So Ali decides to go and seek the sea for her. Other titles from the author/illustrator: It’s so difficult, The day I became a bird,  How to put a whale in your suitcase, Once upon a time, Shadow, Colossus, Penelope in the sea, The story of the black rabbit, Dance, Another country, I am the wolf!, The last tree, 5 flies and a trumpet , Me Albert, the book hater, Edmond, Super heroes do not exist, Parco, The lighthouse , An island 

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