Sea-Cat & Dragon King - Softcover

Carter, Angela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582347689 ISBN 13: 9781582347684

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2002

Synopsis

The Dragon King, the ruler of the sea who is ashamed of his ugliness, becomes jealous of Sea-Cat, whose mother makes him stunning jewel-encrusted suits that radiate beauty, but before he can act on his impulses, Sea-Cat and his mother befriend him and give him a gorgeous suit of his very own.

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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 Pub Plc USA
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1582347689
• ISBN 13: 9781582347684
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 93
• Illustrator: Tatcheva Eva