Children's Fiction Visionary & Metaphysical
The Seagull and the Barnacle
- Publisher
- Bayeux Arts, Inc.
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2021
- Category
- Visionary & Metaphysical, Friendship
- Recommended Age
- 6 to 9
- Recommended Grade
- 1 to 4
- Recommended Reading age
- 3 to 5
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781988440767
- Publish Date
- Nov 2021
- List Price
- $17.95
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Description
The Seagull and the Barnacle are good friends even though they're very different. The Seagull flies over the ocean to wonderful places that the Barnacle can't even imagine, because he's spent his whole life stuck on a rock. When the Seagull tells the Barnacle about his adventures, does it make the Barnacle feel jealous, or sad? Or is the Barnacle happy, in his own way? Maybe there is enough beauty even in one small corner of this world to fill a whole life - but maybe it takes a barnacle to know it.
About the authors
Judd Palmer is one of the founders of the Old Trout Puppet Workshop, a Calgary-based company mostly known for creating puppet theatre for adults and sometimes children, but also operas or films or even occasionally regular theatre without any puppets in it. He also writes and illustrates children’s books, in particular a series called Proposterous Fables for Unusual Children, and in his wilder days he used to play the slide banjo in a punk blues band called the Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir. He lives with Mercedes, the woman of his dreams, and their son Maximiliano.
Nina Palmer is a graphic designer and illustrator. She lives and works in Calgary, Alberta. Almost by accident, she and her family spent the first part of the Pandemic in a small, darkly lit cabin in remote Bamfield, British Columbia, where seagulls and barnacles are bountiful. She thinks it is a worthwhile pastime to sit on a dock or a snowdrift and contemplate whether it is better to be a boisterous world traveller or a solitary barely-moving thinker. Surely the world is both a sprawling catalogue of experience and also a very small and singular gem in the sunlight. This is her first illustrated book.
