Who Makes an Ocean?
A beautifully poetic introduction to how the oceans came to be from Waterstones prize-winning Sally Nicholls.
Discover how an ocean is made - and how life developed on Earth - in this stunning picture book by Waterstones award-winning Sally Nicholls and illustrated by rising star Carolina Rabei.
Who made the oceans? An ancient god? A magic spell? A billion firefighters and all their hoses? Come on a trip to the Sea Museum with Dad, and find out how the oceans came to be, and why they’re so important to our planet. Also in the Who Makes... series ,Who Makes a Forest.
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Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school, travelled the world, working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan. Sally's first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and she has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Costa Children's Book Award, and the Carnegie Medal, twice. She lives in Oxford.
Carolina Rabei is an illustrator with a BA in Graphic Design, and a distinction in the MA in Children’s Book Illustration from the prestigious Cambridge School of Art. Carolina's books have been nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal, shortlisted for the Read It Again! award and featured on The Independent's list of 11 Best Books for 4 to 7-Year-Olds.
