The Search for Carmella
From Waterstones Children's Book Prize winner Chloe Savage comes a magical and suspenseful picture book of deep sea exploration, ideal to gift to children aged 4 and above
$14.44
- Paperback
40 pages
- Release Date
28 August 2025
Summary
From the author-illustrator of The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish, winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year 2024: Best Illustrated Book.
WATERSTONES BEST BABY & TODDLER BOOKS OF 2024 “Captivatingly detailed. The slow, delicious tension builds in breathtaking illustrations. A huge hit.” Irish Examiner “Entrancing” Belfast Telegraph
A stunning tale where…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529523171 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529523176 |
| Author: | Chloe Savage |
| Publisher: | Walker Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Walker Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 40 |
| Release Date: | 28 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 298mm x 206mm x 5mm |
| Series: | Hidden Wonders |
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Critics Review
Featured, The Bookseller November Children’s Previews * The Bookseller *
Featured in ‘The Best Baby & Toddler Books of 2024’ * Waterstones *
The Search for Carmella is hotly anticipated and Savage doesn’t disappoint … The story has a magical quality- and even more special is it puts a female scientist at its heart. * The Courier Dundee *
A dreamy delight from beginning to end, stunningly illustrated in such a way as to evoke the awe and wonder of possibility and reality. In addition to wow moments there are spreads that show the interior of the submersible making this, the author’s follow up to her debut The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish another fusion of science, strangeness and mystery. * Books for Keeps *
exquisitely illustrated, right from the endpapers of the book, to the awe-inspiring two page spreads throughout […] a visual masterpiece of watery wonders and magical mystery […] sure to inspire young explorers, big dreamers and little scientists and researchers. * Mini Travellers *
About The Author
Chloe Savage
Chloe Savage is the author-illustrator of The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish which won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize for Illustration and was shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration. She is also the author-illustrator of The Search for Carmella and The Search for Our Cosmic Neighbours, as part of her Hidden Wonders series. She has an MA in Children’s Book Illustration from The Cambridge School of Art. She has worked for a number of years in opera, film and television. While doodling on call sheets Chloe found her way to her great love of illustration and storytelling. Chloe is a great lover of food and the seaside, she currently lives in Hitchin with her husband and has never been happier.
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