SONG OF THE SEA OTTER

by Edith Thacher Hurd ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1983

A slightly older, slightly fuller book in the gentle, musing tenor of The Mother Chimpanzee or The Mother Whale--similarly concerned with the young otter's growth to independence, but most especially with his discovery of where he belongs: not in ""the great mysterious sea"" (which he explores), nor on land (where he takes refuge in a storm), but in the little harbor his mother first sang to him about. ""Sleep./ My little sea otter baby./ The waves to rock you,/ The deep water below you,/ These are your two worlds./ My little sea otter child."" The young otter does learn to gather shellfish, break them with stones on his chest, and eat the contents; he drifts about on a bed of kelp, grooms himself, sleeps. But there's a teddy-bear look to the drawings, and a mushyness (and patterning) to the text, more suitable to picture books than to true-life accounts.

Pub Date: Nov. 1, 1983

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Sierra Club/Pantheon

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1983

Categories: NONFICTION