Sea Sirens (A Trot & Cap'n Bill Adventure, Book 1)
Author: Amy Chu
Illustrator: Janet K. Lee
Publication Date: June 11, 2019
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
Sea Sirens is a graphic novel about a young girl named Trot who along with her grandfather and beloved cat Cap’n Bill find themselves in a wonderful underwater kingdom. There they meet it’s inhabitants the Sirens and their foes, the infamous Serpents!
The story and art is endearing and filled with all sorts of marvellous creatures. Cap’n Bill the cat is adorable, especially when through the magic of the Sirens, Trot is able to understand him when he speaks. The book and some of the characters are inspired by the writings of L. Frank Baum, who is one of my favourite authors.
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Thank you to Penguin Random House Canada for the ARC provided for review.
From the publisher:
Dive into this visually stunning, middle-grade graphic novel about a spunky Vietnamese American surfer girl and her cantankerous talking cat who plunge into a fantasy world of oceanic marvels . . . and mayhem!
Trot, a Vietnamese American surfer girl, and Cap'n Bill, her cranky one-eyed cat, catch too big a wave and wipe out, sucked down into a magical underwater kingdom where an ancient deep-sea battle rages. The beautiful Sea Siren mermaids are under attack from the Serpent King and his slithery minions--and Trot and her feline become dangerously entangled in this war of tails and fins.
This beautiful graphic novel was inspired by The Sea Fairies, L. Frank Baum's "underwater Wizard of Oz." It weaves Vietnamese mythology, fantastical ocean creatures, a deep-sea setting, quirky but sympathetic main characters, and fast-paced adventure into an imaginative, world-building story.
You can read my original Isabella's Reading Corner post on Sea Sirens here.
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