Ocean Meets Sky

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Upon waking he finds himself sailing to that mysterious place his grandfather told him about where the ocean meets the sky. This beautiful and poignant story has stunning illustrations throughout and explores themes of family, memory and loss.

The story is an ambitious blend of light and heavy, realistic and dreamy: it concerns a small boy, Finn, whose grandfather has recently passed away in his old age. Meticulous draftsmanship by the Fan brothers ( The Night Gardener) gives the spreads genuine majesty. I have even talked the head into a little revamp of the library so that we can display them properly!

The artwork here is breathtakingly beautiful, and there are multiple two-page spreads I would happily hang on my wall, if they were available as prints or posters. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. There are certainly some beautiful illustrations within the book, but they're not all as magical as what's depicted on the outside. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I don't like seeing stuff like that in children's books, since many kids absorb a lot of grammar lessons simply by reading.

A lovely picture book that celebrates familial bonds, as a boy honors the memory of his grandfather by constructing a boat: one he will journey on to where the ocean meets sky, based on tales his grandfather told.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. By the way, it is worth mentioning that Finn, his mother, and his grandfather all have Asian facial features and the dinner Finn wakes up to is a traditional dumpling dish. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This experience has been fantastic primarily for the children, the school and also for me (professionally). Meticulous draftsmanship by the Fan brothers ( The Night Gardener ) gives the spreads genuine majesty.

Full of Gorgeous illustrations, this one is sure to captivate young readers, as they too, read and sail along, on this Magical Journey. That is, I was frustrated until I began to slowly but surely realise and understand that first and foremost Ocean Meets Sky is obviously meant to be a mostly illustrative journey, that it is almost totally picture oriented, with the accompanying text providing in my opinion simply a bit of supplemental verbal guidance. The little boy's fantastic dream takes him past stacks of books, giant sea shells, a blue whale, jellyfish, and many other things. Some nice illustrations, I love when kids get to go into a dreamland and explore themselves or memories of a loved one.

My plan was to visit my country later this year to see him and my grandmother, but corona popped up, he passed, and I didn’t bother following through on plans to prepare to travel later on. I think the fantastical dreams (lovely, lovely illustrations) the boy has are influenced by the stories and conversations with his grandfather. But building is hard work, so Finn falls asleep afterwards, and his dreams take him to all sorts of wondrous places.