Ocean Meets Sky

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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. This is a gorgeous, fantastical story of the enduring bond of a child and his grandfather and a dreamy glimpse of what might lay beyond.

Picked up this Beautiful Gem at my local library last week for my daughter and just realized its up for a Goodreads Choice Award! The illustrations in this story are absolutely beautiful, the ocean creatures are spectacular to look at and the story has a very comforting feel, despite the fact the young boy misses his Grandfather the story has a subtle and reassuring message that a loved one can live on in your memory. Highly recommended, to all fellow Fan Brothers fans, to anyone who appreciates beautiful picture-books, and to anyone looking for children's stories about loss, grief, and the places our dreams can take us. I don't like seeing stuff like that in children's books, since many kids absorb a lot of grammar lessons simply by reading.

This will make a fantastic text to add to our ‘Journey of Life’ topic in PSHE - a gentle and beautiful way to start what can be a difficult conversation. together with two magnificent whales, numerous other sea (and air) creatures, and various other conveyances, from sailing ships to air balloons. The story itself is emotionally resonant, without ever feeling overdone or manipulative, and touches on issues of death, grief and memory, as well as the power of dreams. 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. While it is never explicitly stated that Finn's grandfather has passed, and never says that Finn misses him, my son understood.

Born in Hawaii and raised in Toronto, he attended the Ontario College of Art and Design, where he studied illustration, sculpture and f? Tired from the building, he falls asleep and wakes on the ocean under clouds shaped like a pipe, an anchor and a whale.The little boy's fantastic dream takes him past stacks of books, giant sea shells, a blue whale, jellyfish, and many other things. The background color of the dustcover mirrors the sky with its light blue color, twinkling stars, and clouds floating by.