I, sea : a tale told in homonyms

I, sea A tale told in homonyms

Suzanne Sutherland

Book - 2023

"At first glance, this is a simple and fun pirate story. An orange tabby pirate is out at sea with their trusty -- if a little crabby -- first mate, and everything is right with the world. Until... Splash! A wave crashes over-board and something gets in the pirate's eye. A trip to the floppy-eared eye doctor brings solutions in the form of (you guessed it!) an eye patch and lollipops! Soon enough, the two companions are back on the high seas where they belong. But there's more to this story than first meets the eye. See? (Har har.) The story plays with only two words -- but includes the variations that can be found within those two words: "I" can also be "eye," "aye," and the letter "I."...; While "sea" can also be "see" and the letter "C"! Very young kids will be engaged by a simple and clever pirate story, while at the same time learning the concept of a homophone in a practical, straightforward way. On the final page, readers discover that this charming and whimsical story was played out by a child with toys in their bathtub -- a fun ode to creativity, imagination, and one of the key themes in a book of homonyms: the power of perspective."--

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Subjects
English language > Homonyms > Juvenile fiction.
Sailors > Juvenile fiction.
Tiger > Juvenile fiction.
Eye > Wounds and injuries > Juvenile fiction.
Fiction.
Picture books.
Genres
Fiction
Picture books
Published
Toronto, ON : Owlkids Books [2023]
Language
English
Main Author
Suzanne Sutherland (author)
Other Authors
Ashley Barron (illustrator)
Item Description
"Edited by Ella Russell"--Title page verso.
Physical Description
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Audience
BR50L
ISBN
9781771474993
Contents unavailable.
Review by Kirkus Book Review

A nautical (and ophthalmological) adventure, with only variations on a few homonyms for text. In flat assemblages composed of brightly colored patterned paper elements, a seagoing tiger gazes through binoculars to spot an island ("Eye. See"), takes a sudden wave in the face ("Eye! Sea!") that leads to a visit to a doctor's office to read a wall chart ("I…C…"), and gets a rakish eye patch ("Eye. See?"), then heads back to the briny deep. A final page with a concluding "I see" for, perhaps, young audiences to intone depicts a cat checking out a brown-skinned child immersed in a sudsy, toy-filled bathtub. This "Land of Counterpane"--style flight lends itself to reading aloud in a broad, expressive way and could serve as a first introduction to a feature of language with equal potential for confusion and hilarious wordplay. But since Sutherland doesn't distinguish homonyms from homographs and homophones, it's best employed as a prelude to more precise explorations of the topic like Gene Barretta's The Bat Can Bat (2018) or Nancy Coffelt's Aunt Ant Leaves Through the Leaves (2012). (This book was reviewed digitally.) Clever but too limited to float unassisted. (Picture book. 4-6) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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