On an Italian hillside, Paulo the shepherd boy plays his wooden flute badly, but thinks he is a match for King Ocean himself. Before he knows it he's swept beneath the waves to an underwater world of dolphins and merfolk. Here King Ocean challenges him to play not only all the songs of the earth, but the songs of the sea, or else stay captive and polish mermaid's scales and scrub salt off the seabed for seven long years. A lyrical story complemented by Peter Malone's stunning fine art illustrations.
- ISBN10 1842555219
- ISBN13 9781842555217
- Publish Date 21 June 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 December 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hachette Children's Group
- Imprint Orion Children's Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 32
- Language English