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The Boy Who Held Back the Sea (Picture Puffins) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Lenny Hort, Thomas Locker, Mary Mapes Dodge
Publisher: Puffin
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 248640
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 32
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 8.2 x 0.1
ISBN: 0140546138
EAN: 9780140546132
ASIN: 0140546138
Publication Date: March 1, 1993
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Product Description
Jan had never done anything more heroic than shout for the guard because he'd imagined he'd seen a sea serpent. But when Jan discovered water trickling through a desolate stretch of the dike that protected his low-lying village, he knew he had to act fast.
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| Customer Reviews:
Classic tale March 28, 2004
Erika Mitchell (E. Calais, VT USA)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
This book tells a version of the story of the little Dutch boy who holds back the sea with his finger. In this version, the boy is a bit naughty. He gets to skip church by offering to carry a pie to blind man, but then eats the pie himself instead of delivering it. When he finds the leaky dike, nobody believes him because he is known to be such a troublemaker. As a result, he ends up spending the night alone by the dike and has to endure a raging storm before he and the dike are rescued. The book is a little scary but it's a good engaging story. The pictures are all done in the style of the Dutch Masters. It has about 1000 words.
Sweet childhood story - Pictures were phenomenal October 9, 2007
J. Syphert (San Antonio, TX)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
My husband lived in the Netherlands for two years, so we've seen a few pictures and heard a few stories. When we checked this book out through the library, I knew we had to have it. The story is simple, and the pictures are amazing and penetrating classics.
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