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
Contributor(s): Almond, David (Author), Alemagna, Beatrice (Illustrator)
EAN: 9781536216745
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: May 18, 2021
Target Age Group: 07 to 09
Physical Info: 1.52 cms H x 21.08 cms L x 16.26 cms W (0.34 kgs) 64 pages

Publisher Marketing:
A solitary girl with a kinship for the sea makes a wondrous discovery in a tale of identity and belonging from master storyteller David Almond.
Annie Lumsden has hair that drifts like seaweed, eyes that shine like rock pools, and thoughts that dart and dance like minnows. She lives with her artist mother by the sea, where she feels utterly at home, and has long felt apart from the other girls at school. Words and numbers on the page don't make sense to her, and strange maladies have been springing up that the doctors can't explain. Annie's mother says that all things can be turned into tales, and often she tells her daughter stories about the rocks she paints like faces, or the smoke that wafts from chimneys, or who Annie's dad is. But one day Annie asks her mother for a different tale, something with better truth in it--and on that same day a stranger in town, drawn to the sight of a girl who seems akin to the sea, helps Annie understand how special she is. Featuring Beatrice Alemagna's expressive illustrations, this enchanting coming-of-age tale by the award-winning David Almond borrows from lore and flirts at the edges of mystery.