The Boy who Held Back the SeaJan had never done anything more heroic then shout for the guard beacuse he'd imagined he'd seen a sea serpent. But when Jan discovers water trickling through a desolate stretch of the dike that protects his low-lying village, he knows that he has to act quickly. Full color. |
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