A Stone for Sascha

£11.99

This year’s summer holiday will be very different for a young girl and her family without Sascha, the beloved family dog, along for the ride. But a walk along the beach to gather cool, polished stones becomes a brilliant turning point in the girl’s grief. There, at the edge of a vast ocean beneath an infinite sky, she uncovers, alongside the reader, a profound and joyous truth.

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A beautiful wordless epic from the Caldecott Honor-winning creator of Journey, Quest and Return.

This year’s summer holiday will be very different for a young girl and her family without Sascha, the beloved family dog, along for the ride. But a walk along the beach to gather cool, polished stones becomes a brilliant turning point in the girl’s grief. There, at the edge of a vast ocean beneath an infinite sky, she uncovers, alongside the reader, a profound and joyous truth…

In his first picture book since his bestselling Journey trilogy, Aaron Becker achieves a tremendous feat, connecting the personal loss of one child to a cycle spanning millennia – and delivering a stunningly layered tale that demands to be pored over again and again.

Weight 0.515 kg
Dimensions 24.7 × 27.7 × 1 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

48 unnumbered

Language

English

Edition

Hardback original

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

Children – juvenile / Code: J