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The Boy Who Held Back the Sea

Lenny Hort, Thomas Locker, Mary Mapes Dodge

Paperback (Puffin Books, March 1, 1993)

From the award-winning and renowned illustrator Thomas Locker, beautiful oil-painted illustrations pair with this wonderful retelling of the traditional Dutch folktale. Jan had never done anything more heroic than shout for the guard because he’d imagined he’d seen a sea serpent. But when Jan discovered water trickling through a desolate stretch of the dike that protected his low-lying village, he knew he had to act fast. “Visually stunning.”—Publishers Weekly "Locker's depiction of nature overpowering humanity is especially significant to the story and to the Dutch people who have spent centuries battling the sea."--School Library Journal

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The Boy Who Held Back the Sea

Thomas Locker, Lenny Hort

Hardcover (Dial, Sept. 30, 1987)

By blocking a leaking hole in the dike, a young boy saves his town from destruction

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The Boy Who Held Back the Sea

Lenny Hort, Thomas Locker, Mary Mapes Dodge

Library Binding (Paw Prints 2009-07-10, April 9, 2009)

Jan had never done anything more heroic than shout for the guard because he'd imagined he'd seen a sea serpent. But when Jan discovered water trickling through a desolate stretch of the dike that protected his low-lying village, he knew he had to act fast.

The Boy Who Held Back the Sea

Lenny Hort, Thomas Locker

Hardcover (Dial, Sept. 30, 1987)

By blocking a leaking hole in the dike, a young boy saves his town from destruction.

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The Boy Who Held Back the Sea

Thomas Locker, Lenny Hort

Paperback (Puffin, Sept. 2, 1991)

Jan had never done anything more heroic than shout for the guard because he'd imagined he'd seen a sea serpent. But when Jan discovered water trickling through a desolate stretch of the dike that protected his low-lying village, he knew he had to act fast.