See the Ocean

by Estelle Condra, Linda Crockett-Blassingame (Illustrator)

Overview

Nellie loves the ocean. Every year she travels with her family over the Black Mountains to their beach house. And every year her two brothers compete to see who will catch the first glimpse of the ocean through the mountain passes. Nellie never competes-until this year. This year, the mountains are blanketed in a heavy mist, and no one can see the ocean-no one except Nellie.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780977814305
Publisher:	Inclusive Books LLC
Publication date:	05/15/1994
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

Editorial Reviews

Every year Gerald and Jamin enjoy their fierce competition to be the first to spot the ocean. But when a heavy mist envelops the Black Mountains, it is their blind sister, Nellie, who senses the ocean first. Condra's warm family vignette is more a paean to nature and Nellie's imaginative vision than a fully formed story. The rich colors of the oil paintings that accompany the text also often blend into one another, giving an unfocused, misty quality to the double-page spreads. Although some readers may find Nellie's description of the ocean florid ("The ocean is an old, old man . . . he laughs and gurgles and prattles in the rock pools."), Condra has created a thoughtful, sometimes feisty heroine whose inner vision is more acute than other people's powers of observation.

Linda Callaghan