King Ocean's Flute

A classically-illustrated picture book . Fine art paintings by Peter Malone. HOW MANY MILES TO BETHLEHEM?, Peter's most recent picture book, was longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award. Lucy Coats is the author of picture books and fiction including COLL THE STORYTELLER'S TALES OF ENCHANTMENT and ATTICUS THE STORYTELLER'S GREEK MYTHS (sales over 39,000 copies) Hardback published to critical acclaim: 'skilful, minutely observed, decorative masterpiece' (Sunday Times). 'the loveliest summer book of all' (The Times).

7A beautifully designed classic picture book with a magical underwater theme.On an Italian hillside, Paulo the shepherd boy plays his wooden flute badly, but thinks he is a match for King Ocean himself. Before he knows it he's swept beneath the waves to an underwater world of dolphins and merfolk. Here King Ocean challenges him to play not only all the songs of the earth, but the songs of the sea, or else stay captive and polish mermaid's scales and scrub salt off the seabed for seven long years. A lyrical story complemented by Peter Malone's stunning fine art illustrations.