| The Boy Who Held Back the Sea (Picture Puffins) |
| Authors: Lenny Hort, Thomas Locker, Mary Mapes Dodge
Publisher: Puffin
Category: Book
List Price: $6.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 133162
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 8.2 x 0.1
ISBN: 0140546138
EAN: 9780140546132
ASIN: 0140546138
Publication Date: March 1, 1993
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Condition: new paperback
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Product Description
Jan had never done anything more heroic than shout for the guard because he'd imagined he'd seen a sea serpent. But when Jan discovered water trickling through a desolate stretch of the dike that protected his low-lying village, he knew he had to act fast.
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Customer Reviews:
Sweet childhood story - Pictures were phenomenal October 9, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
My husband lived in the Netherlands for two years, so we've seen a few pictures and heard a few stories. When we checked this book out through the library, I knew we had to have it. The story is simple, and the pictures are amazing and penetrating classics.
Classic tale March 28, 2004
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
This book tells a version of the story of the little Dutch boy who holds back the sea with his finger. In this version, the boy is a bit naughty. He gets to skip church by offering to carry a pie to blind man, but then eats the pie himself instead of delivering it. When he finds the leaky dike, nobody believes him because he is known to be such a troublemaker. As a result, he ends up spending the night alone by the dike and has to endure a raging storm before he and the dike are rescued. The book is a little scary but it's a good engaging story. The pictures are all done in the style of the Dutch Masters. It has about 1000 words.
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