Sea-cat and Dragon King - Hardcover

Carter, Angela

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 074754882X ISBN 13: 9780747548829

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2000

Synopsis

Sea-Cat lives at the bottom of the sea with his mother, and in order to keep him warm and dry, Mother Cat knits Sea-Cat the most beautiful clothes and soon Sea-Cat comes to the attention of the grim Dragon King. He wants to be as beautiful as Sea-Cat, and soon an inspired compromise is achieved.

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Review:

Sea-Cat lives at the bottom of the ocean with his mother, a talented specimen who designs and makes the most beautiful jewel-encrusted clothes. The bitter, resentful Dragon King, Lord of the Ocean, also lives at the bottom of the ocean, but is ashamed of his own ugliness and becomes increasingly jealous of Sea-Cat's fine clothes. When they meet, Sea-Cat offers Dragon King a solution to his problems, and with the help of Sea-Cat's mother they make a beautiful jewelled coat that changes absolutely everything.

Sea-Cat and Dragon Kingis beautifully written with the thoughtful, quirky style that made Angela Carter an award-winning author, with glimmering, shimmering prose that combines classic fairy-tale ideals with contemporary twists.

This lovely, lovely book, with its delicate black and white line drawings adding further ripples of interest is ideal for young readers who are just starting to read alone, but is really at its best when read out loud. --Susan Harrison

About the Author:

Angela Carter died in 1992, but her novels, short story collections, and essays live on, attracting new generations of readers to her often dark, always quirky worldview. Perhaps best known for her adult fiction (Wise Children, Nights at the Circus, Burning Your Boats, Saints and Strangers, among other titles), Carter was also a gifted and prolific essayist. She wrote screenplays, translated the fairy tales of Charles Perrault, and edited collections of folk tales but this is her only book for children.

Eva Tatcheva studied illustration at the Royal College of Art in London. She is the illustrator of Witch Zelda's Birthday Cake: A Wild and Wicked Pop-Up, Pull-The-Tab Book. She lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 074754882X
• ISBN 13: 9780747548829
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 93
• Illustrator: Tatcheva Eva