Marine Life - Children's Picture Book

NZ Writer and Illustrator

Marion Day, illustrated by Jane Thorne

Spiny Sebastian Starfish

AM Publishing NZ 2016  $19.99pb 32pp

ISBN 978 0 9941 3053 2

Themes: Marine life/ Marlborough Sounds, NZ

One morning while he was simply minding his own business and searching for food on the sea floor, Sebastian Starfish found himself hooked, dragged to the surface and thrown into a smelly bucket of bait.   This began a long and anxious journey for him until, at last, he was reunited with his friends. Small children will enjoy identifying the different emotions on Sebastian’s ‘face’ from terror to surprise to, at last, real happiness when he was returned home.

This picture book, the first of a planned series, is available from selected bookshops and from the writer who lives and creates her stories in the Marlborough Sounds. Go to: marionday@xtra.co.nz   

Preschool up/ Age 4 up