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As this book was supposedly based on information supplied by the children themselves, Ransome drew the pictures as though done by the characters. These illustrations were so popular that Ransome illustrated the remainder of his books himself. In 1938, he drew his own pictures for Swallows and Amazons and Swallowdale to replace Webb's.
The initial failure of Under the Sea Wind may have been due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and America entering World War II the same year it was published. [9] [10] The book became popular after the publication of the second book in the Sea Trilogy, The Sea Around Us, and it was this second text that established her as a natural history author ...
Minn of the Mississippi received a positive review from Kirkus Reviews, which wrote, "this new lovely picture book, bursting with legend, history, natural science, convincing personalities and even a few wise saws, has such a bountiful collection of loving detail and good story, that it is bound to keep the reader happy and busy for some time." [7]
This is a collection of science fiction novels, comic books, films, television series and video games that take place either partially or primarily underwater. They prominently feature maritime and underwater environments , or other underwater aspects from the nautical fiction genre, as in Jules Verne 's classic 1870 novel Twenty Thousand ...
In the Imperial China of the Qing dynasty, there are five brothers who "all looked exactly alike."They each possess a special talent: the first brother can swallow the sea, the second has an unbreakable iron neck, the third can stretch his legs to incredible lengths, the fourth is immune to burning, and the fifth can hold his breath forever.
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The story follows the plot of Austen's novel, but sets it in an alternative universe in which an event known as "The Alteration" has turned the creatures of the sea against mankind. In addition, this unexplained event spawns numerous "sea monsters", including sea serpents, giant lobsters, and man-eating jellyfish.
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