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  • Published: 28 May 2024
  • ISBN: 9780141376400
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $16.99

The Elephant and the Sea



One growing elephant. One smallish lifeboat. One BIG dream . . .

From the award-winning author-illustrator Ed Vere comes a lyrical tale celebrating bravery and quiet determination.

In a village by the sea, carved into the rockiest edge of land, where the waves are wild and tumbling lives an old elephant. Once he was a young elephant – with a dream of joining the lifeboat crew. But elephants don’t fit in lifeboats.

Gabriel is determined, and he is ingenious, and he is brave. So much so that one stormy day he might be the only one who can save the day.

  • Published: 28 May 2024
  • ISBN: 9780141376400
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $16.99

About the author

Ed Vere

Ed Vere studied fine art at Camberwell College of Art and has been writing and illustrating children's books since 1999. He is published in both England and the US. Ed is also a painter, working from his studio in east London, and is represented by galleries in London and Los Angeles. After a year and a half living in Barcelona, Ed now lives and works in London.

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