Sea Stories

by Mar Jaime De Pablos, Marjorie van Heerden (Illustrator)

Overview

Sea Stories is a collection of stories from around the world – from “Hans and the hole” in Haarlem (Netherlands) to the harvesters of seabird nests Adhi (Pakistan) and Sinta (Guinea) in the East. But there are also many stories from other parts of the world, such as “The Flying Dutchman”, the Hole-in-the-Wall at esiKhaleni where the water people come to fetch you, “The ghosts of Jutten Island”, “Adamastor and the Cape of Storms” and the shepherd from Macassar who found Sheik Yusuf’s grave amongst the dunes.

Sea Stories also contains adaptations of The Little Mermaid, the tale of Princess Elisa and her eleven swan brothers, and the West Coast farmer Koos Malgas who stole his wife’s seal skin. And of course Hare tricks Salt Water Crocodile.

The charming illustrations by Marjorie van Heerden will carry a little reader away to a magical world full of oceanic wonder.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781485304029
Publisher:	Protea Boekhuis
Publication date:	09/14/2016
Edition description:	1st
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Wendy Maartens lives in Table View – only a stone’s throw from the “big blue dam”, Rietvlei’s lagoon and the West Coast where everything centres around the turn of the tide, the early morning’s catch and stories from long ago. She is an author of children’s books, a journalist, a translator and a dreamer. In 2006 Maartens received an honourable mention at the Noma Awards. Twice she has been a finalist at the ATKV’s Veertjie Awards.

Since the publication of Marjorie van Heerden’s first children’s picture book in 1983, more than 120 titles have been published with her as illustrator or writer/illustrator and her work has been translated into 34 languages and distributed in Africa, Britain, Europe, the East, Canada and the USA. She has won numerous awards for her work including the 2011 W.B. Mkhize Award. In 2012, Marjorie and author Alex D’Angelo won the M.E.R. Award (one of theMedia24 Books Literary Awards) for the best illustrated children’s book published in South African during the previous year (2011) – they won forGoblin Diaries: Apprenticed to the Red Witc. This was the second time she had been awarded this prestigious award – the first time was in 2008 when she won it with author Wendy Hartmann forNina and Little Duck, published in 2007.