Ocean Meets Sky

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To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The Washington Post From the creators of the gorgeous bestseller The Night Gardener comes a stunning new picture book about a young boy who sets sail to find a place his grandfather told him about. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

While it is never explicitly stated that Finn's grandfather has passed, and never says that Finn misses him, my son understood.A little boy builds a ship to honor his late grandfather and sets sail for the magical place where ocean meets sky from his grandfather's story. Born in Hawaii and raised in Toronto, he attended the Ontario College of Art and Design, where he studied illustration, sculpture and f ilm. I have never read a storybook quite like Ocean meets Sky and it is one that every child and adult should read at least once in. The scene with the moon jellies stands out to me, as does the one in which Finn's ship hangs in mid-air (or is it mid-ocean?

Yesterday a parent came over to tell me how impressed she was by the book fair and that you did a fabulous job of selling the books to the children first. A boy who misses his grandpa goes off on an fantastic boat ride to find the place his grandfather often spoke of, where the ocean meets the sky. Finn reminisces on his loving relationship with his grandfather, a raconteur whose fantastical stories nourished the young boy's imagination.In what is ultimately revealed to be a dream, Finn builds a boat and undertakes a solo nautical journey, assisted by a talking fish guide, in the hopes of reuniting with his grandfather in the paradise where "ocean meets sky"; along the way, he encounters some visually lovely mythic islands populated by book-reading birds and giant shells. The whimsical steampunk-ish illustrations are brimful of charming details that could keep any adult or child reader engrossed for hours -- a truly inspired mix of whale, fish, bird, and ship imagery.