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barbarianlibarian's review against another edition
2.0
gorgeous illustrations but zero point to the "story"
e_ramirez_ortega's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
5.0
This book is profound more than meets the eye. The narrator, Sophia, is traveling under the water to encounter all the beauty and peril of the sea. She becomes an adventurer, a tour guide for the reader journeying with her. "Will you dive down and see? Will you follow me? I know you will. You are brave." Creatures and artifacts are found but they are not the center of the story. They are a lost treasure. Suddenly, she sees her reflection in a mirror. "Deep down I never feel alone."
Only the reflection isn't her, but a doppelganger, a mermaid. "I can always see a friend in me, whose strength lifts me up..." She is carried home to a scene where she is little and with her mother...I can presume.
This story is whimsical and fantastical yet it posseses a deep tone of loneliness, of longing, of a desire to escape to a world where meaning and discovery is found, where memories are buried.
Only the reflection isn't her, but a doppelganger, a mermaid. "I can always see a friend in me, whose strength lifts me up..." She is carried home to a scene where she is little and with her mother...I can presume.
This story is whimsical and fantastical yet it posseses a deep tone of loneliness, of longing, of a desire to escape to a world where meaning and discovery is found, where memories are buried.
erine's review against another edition
3.0
Reminded me of This is Blue - gorgeous gorgeous illustrations, but an amorphous daydream of text.
I struggle with plotless meanderings like this, that look like a story, but really rely on the reader to provide the finer details. Usually I'm just not ready to fire up my rusty old imagination. Regardless of the text, I really appreciate the depth and detail of the illustrations.
I struggle with plotless meanderings like this, that look like a story, but really rely on the reader to provide the finer details. Usually I'm just not ready to fire up my rusty old imagination. Regardless of the text, I really appreciate the depth and detail of the illustrations.
jaimiestarshine's review against another edition
adventurous
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
cweichel's review against another edition
4.0
Many of the mixed media collages in this book are breathtaking. (That’s kind of a pun) A young girl goes on a fantastical journey into the deepest, darkest regions of the ocean. It takes us into where dragons live and “hot gassy bubbles burp secrets from deep inside the center of the earth..”
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