Estrella’s pictures provide a realistic and esoteric, delightful complement, a perfect mirror of and for Pam Muñoz Ryan's lyrical and descriptive poetic paean, and as such Hello Ocean glowingly and caressingly features a for the most part simply and utterly perfect and successful marriage of text and image.

And yes, little girl's verbal images have therefore also become my own and personal images, she has become me and I have become her, and both of us have in Hello Ocean merged with the water, with the waves, with the magic of the sea and its surroundings.Īnd of course Estrella's accompanying illustrations are also equally wonderful, realistic, yet also at the same time magical, evocatively enchanting, showing, presenting on a visual and concrete, pictorial level the translucent, magical beauty of the waves, of the sky, of the reflection of the setting sun on the surface of the water.

And wow, I do feel myself so much and so completely immersed in and enveloped by the the author's presented narrative that with Hello Ocean I can almost literally see, feel, touch and smell the ocean myself (and can actually also and well imagine being that little girl, experiencing the waves, the sun, the scent of the salt wind, the touch of the sand, the squishy sea kelp on my bare skin). Poetically, lyrically, evocatively a young girl delightfully and glowingly textually describes how the ocean is her oldest and dearest friend, how she loves the sights, the sounds, the touch, the smells and tastes of the sea. OL784063W Pages 38 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201013001923 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 195 Scandate 20201012002848 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780881069884 Tts_version 4.Yes indeed, Hello Ocean (penned by Pam Muñoz Ryan and graced with and by Mark Estrella’s glowing and luminous accompnying illustrations) truly and utterly delightfully present an opulent magical feast for the senses, and definitely for ALL of the senses.

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