Flotsam And Jetsam

by Tanya Landman

Published 5 June 2006
This is a magical modern fairytale designed for readers gaining in confidence. A tiny beach...An upturned boat...A whisper of smoke...When Flotsam and Jetsam are washed ashore, they soon become the best of friends. Every day brings a new adventure for the tiny pair. Join them as they battle a spiteful seagull, build a new home and rescue a very shy hermit crab. This is a brand new series. "Racing Reads" are pacy and engaging first novels for the newly-independent reader. Each book is extensively illustrated and the story-per-chapter structure is ideal for building reading confidence.

Resourceful and entertaining, Flotsam and Jetsam are the Borrowers of the seashore.

One day Flotsam and Jetsam find a whistle. They don’t know what it is and, when Flotsam blows it, it makes a horrible sound so they keep it as a seagull scarer. But little do they know that someone else has heard it too – a big dog with a wet nose who comes to investigate. He even spends the night in their boat house! The next day they all play on the beach but the dog’s owners soon spot him and collect him, leaving Flotsam, Jetsam and Sainsbury alone on their tiny beach.


Resourceful and entertaining, Flotsam and Jetsam are the Borrowers of the seashore.

Flotsam and Jetsam live on a tiny secluded beach. Every day the sea brings them a new adventure: a huge heap of bedraggled feathers that turns out to be a shelduck; an umbrella that becomes a summer house; and a very special surprise!