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A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month June 2023
Award winning Sally Nicholls’s easy to understand and beautifully written text makes Who Makes the Ocean? the perfect introduction to the complicated story of how Earth came into being. It is also a call to remind children and their parents that everyone can to their bit to protect oceans and the creatures that live in them.
On a visit to the Ocean World museum, Dad uses the exhibits to teach his children about the world around them. Starting with the ocean makes sense as more than half of Earth is water which is why it looks blue from outer space and has earned the name, the Blue Planet. From the big bang, the forming of lakes and rivers, the beginnings of life on earth and in the water beautiful colour illustrations by Carolina Rabei bring the story of evolution to life beautifully.
Julia Eccleshare M.B.E
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Who Makes an Ocean? Synopsis
Discover how an ocean is made - and how life developed on Earth - in this stunning picture book by Waterstones award-winning Sally Nicholls and illustrated by rising star Carolina Rabei.
Who made the oceans? An ancient god? A magic spell? A billion firefighters and all their hoses? Come on a trip to the Sea Museum with Dad, and find out how the oceans came to be, and why they're so important to our planet.
Also in the Who Makes... series: Who Makes a Forest?
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9781839131301 |
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1st June 2023 |
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Sally Nicholls |
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Carolina Rabei |
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Andersen Press Ltd |
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Hardback |
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32 pages |
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Who Makes... |
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About Sally Nicholls
I was born in Stockton-on-Tees, just after midnight, in a thunderstorm. My father died when I was two, and my brother Ian and I were brought up my mother. I always wanted to write - when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I used to say "I'm going to be a writer" - very definite.
I've always loved reading, and I spent most of my childhood trying to make real life as much like a book as possible. My friends and I had a secret club like the Secret Seven, and when I was nine I got most of my hair cut off because I wanted to look like George in the Famous Five. I was a real tomboy - I liked riding my bike, climbing trees and building dens in our garden. And I liked making up stories. I used to wander round my school playground at break, making up stories in my head.
I went to two secondary schools - a little Quaker school in North Yorkshire (where it was so cold that thick woolly jumpers were part of the school uniform) and a big comprehensive. I was very lonely at the little school, but I made friends at the comprehensive and got on all right. I didn't like being a teenager very much, though.
After school, I got to be an adult, which was fantastic. I went and worked in a Red Cross Hospital in Japan and then travelled around Australia and New Zealand. I jumped off bridges and tall buildings, climbed Mount Doom, wore a kimono and went to see a ballet in the Sydney Opera House. Then I came back and did a degree in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick. In my third year, realising with some panic that I was now supposed to earn a living, I enrolled in a masters in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa. It was here that I wrote Ways to Live Forever. I also won the prize for the writer with most potential, through which I got my agent. Four months later, I had a publisher.
I now live in a little house in Oxford, writing stories, and trying to believe my luck.
Photo credit Barrington Stoke website
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