Annie Lumsden, the Girl from the Sea

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海を身近に感じている少女アニー・ラムスデンは、海藻のようにただよう髪、岩場のように輝く目、そしてミノムシのように飛び跳ねて踊る考え方を持っていました。

芸術家の母と海辺で暮らしている彼女は、学校では、どこか他の女の子たちとは違うと感じていました。

アニーの母は、「どんなものでも物語にできる」と言い、自分が顔のように描いた石や、煙突から漂う煙、アニーのお父さんが誰なのかなど、よく娘に物語を聞かせていた。
ある日、町の見知らぬ人がやってきて、彼女の物語は変化していきます。

ベアトリーチェ・アレマーニャの表情豊かなイラストと、デビッド・アーモンドによって語られたミステリーの端をなぞるような魅惑的な青春物語です。

Annie Lumsden, the Girl from the Sea
by David Almond (Author)
Illustrated by:Beatrice Alemagna
Format:Hardback 64 pages
Publisher:Walker Books Ltd
Imprint:Walker Books Ltd
ISBN:9781406377590
Published:6 Aug 2020
Weight:328g
Dimensions:171 x 214 x 15 (mm)
Pub. Country:United Kingdom

Description
A magical story about finding your identity from one of the most acclaimed storytellers of his generation, richly illustrated in full colour by an internationally renowned artist. My mother says that all things can be turned to tales. I thought she meant tales like fish tails, but I was wrong.

She meant tales like this, tales that are stories. But this tale of mine is very like a fish tail too... Annie has never been like the other girls.

Her mam tried sending her to school when she was small, but Annie couldn’t seem to make words or numbers stick. She prefers instead to be swimming in the sea, or sunbathing on the shore at Stupor Beach, her head full of tales. She should have been a fish, her mam always tells her, and Annie knows the truth of it.

Then a stranger who comes to town is struck by the beauty and the wonder of her, and Annie Lumsden realizes that perhaps she really is half a creature from the sea.