![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Any child who has caught a lightning bug or befriended a stray puppy will identify with the protagonist here. Within the framework of a fantastic tale, she successfully introduces the larger idea of humans' age-old struggle to find a balance between taming nature and coexisting with it. Cowan's fluid adaptation is suffused with emotion. But nature takes its course as the wave's moods turn out to be as ""changeable as the tide."" Her wild and unpredictable behavior spells the end of the wave's landlocked days, and as soon as winter weather freezes her solid, ""a beautiful statue of ice,"" the distressed family returns her to the ocean where she belongs. The wave adores her new surroundings, spraying foam as she rushes through the household, floating with the boy and rocking him to sleep. A boy creates his own endless summer when he brings home a wave from the family's beach vacation in this splashy fantasy based on a story by Nobel laureate Paz. ![]()
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