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Sloth and Manatee: Ocean Adventure
"I am touching a whale... there are whales in this water, so if I touch here, the water touches and touches and eventually it touches a whale!" - Sloth
"Gentle, philosophic, kind, wonderful" - Grant Petersen
Sloth and Manatee are friends - with each other, and with whomever - or whatever - they meet. Their adventures continue each Saturday morning with a new comic.
A friend is someone who listens to you when you wonder about life and ask deep questions - like, is that a rock, or an octopus? How does a cuttlefish know where it is in the vast ocean? What do we do in this dark undersea cave? And of course, do colorful socks make you look more like a sea slug?
"Sloth and Manatee - Ocean Adventure" is the second Sloth and Manatee collection, in which the friends experience what it's like to migrate across a world connected by water, ride a current, get lost in a school of fish, and encounter eye-less creatures in the dark. Each page has a fresh perspective on the ocean and the creatures who live there - and what it might be like to talk and make friends with them. And how a sea sponge might do stand-up comedy.
This comic is for anyone and everyone who loves nature, and friendship, and a sense of connection - it is a quiet place to wonder at our world and its endless forms of life. "Ocean Adventure" is a book you can read and re-read, to feel a little bit grounded and a little more hopeful. It can inspire curiosity in people of all ages, about the many discoveries they might make in the world - in the tradition of beloved companions like Frog and Toad, Snoopy and Woodstock, Beatrix Potter, Calvin and Hobbes.
Order your copy of "Sloth and Manatee - Ocean Adventure" today, and travel the ocean and meet new friends. And join Sloth and Manatee on Saturday mornings for their continuing adventures!
About the Betsy Streeter is an artist and cartoonist and illustrator who lives in the San Francisco East Bay in California. She created Sloth and Manatee while making stories in a pop-up gallery in the vault of an abandoned bank. She is the creator of the "Brainwaves" single-panel feature which ran in syndication and is licensed worldwide, and has written the Silverwood science fiction trilogy and an illustrated science fiction serial entitled "Neptune Road." One of her cartoons is taped to the cabinet in Paul Giamatti's character's office in the movie "San Andreas," starring The Rock.
"Gentle, philosophic, kind, wonderful" - Grant Petersen
Sloth and Manatee are friends - with each other, and with whomever - or whatever - they meet. Their adventures continue each Saturday morning with a new comic.
A friend is someone who listens to you when you wonder about life and ask deep questions - like, is that a rock, or an octopus? How does a cuttlefish know where it is in the vast ocean? What do we do in this dark undersea cave? And of course, do colorful socks make you look more like a sea slug?
"Sloth and Manatee - Ocean Adventure" is the second Sloth and Manatee collection, in which the friends experience what it's like to migrate across a world connected by water, ride a current, get lost in a school of fish, and encounter eye-less creatures in the dark. Each page has a fresh perspective on the ocean and the creatures who live there - and what it might be like to talk and make friends with them. And how a sea sponge might do stand-up comedy.
This comic is for anyone and everyone who loves nature, and friendship, and a sense of connection - it is a quiet place to wonder at our world and its endless forms of life. "Ocean Adventure" is a book you can read and re-read, to feel a little bit grounded and a little more hopeful. It can inspire curiosity in people of all ages, about the many discoveries they might make in the world - in the tradition of beloved companions like Frog and Toad, Snoopy and Woodstock, Beatrix Potter, Calvin and Hobbes.
Order your copy of "Sloth and Manatee - Ocean Adventure" today, and travel the ocean and meet new friends. And join Sloth and Manatee on Saturday mornings for their continuing adventures!
About the Betsy Streeter is an artist and cartoonist and illustrator who lives in the San Francisco East Bay in California. She created Sloth and Manatee while making stories in a pop-up gallery in the vault of an abandoned bank. She is the creator of the "Brainwaves" single-panel feature which ran in syndication and is licensed worldwide, and has written the Silverwood science fiction trilogy and an illustrated science fiction serial entitled "Neptune Road." One of her cartoons is taped to the cabinet in Paul Giamatti's character's office in the movie "San Andreas," starring The Rock.
66 pages, Paperback
Published December 7, 2022
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September 15, 2023
I'm a bit lost.
Some of the illustrations are charming. The Sponge comedian's repartee is quite funny. There are a few marine facts floated throughout, but they are neither expounded upon nor explained, yet might spark interest and conversion if this book is being read to a child.
Sloth and Manatee meet a wide variety of marine life some are interesting and more information would be welcome. But for the most part I found it confusing with little consistency in voice or intended reader age. The inclusion of slang, casual grammar and some philosophical whimsy would indicate it is intended for an older child, though the illustrations, vague introductions, most of the vocabulary, and repetition of certain simple phrases would suggest not.
Honestly, I don't know how to fairly review this book because I cannot figure out what the author is trying to do.
Some of the illustrations are charming. The Sponge comedian's repartee is quite funny. There are a few marine facts floated throughout, but they are neither expounded upon nor explained, yet might spark interest and conversion if this book is being read to a child.
Sloth and Manatee meet a wide variety of marine life some are interesting and more information would be welcome. But for the most part I found it confusing with little consistency in voice or intended reader age. The inclusion of slang, casual grammar and some philosophical whimsy would indicate it is intended for an older child, though the illustrations, vague introductions, most of the vocabulary, and repetition of certain simple phrases would suggest not.
Honestly, I don't know how to fairly review this book because I cannot figure out what the author is trying to do.
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