Cyrus the unsinkable sea serpent

Bill Peet

Book - 1975

Cyrus, a shy and friendly serpent, finally realizes his ambition by heroically helping some voyagers through a storm and foiling some dastardly pirates.

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Genres
Picture books
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin 1975.
Language
English
Main Author
Bill Peet (-)
Physical Description
46 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm
ISBN
9780881039375
9780395202722
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Review by Kirkus Book Review

Challenged to go out and wreck a ship, sea serpent Cyrus decides to protect one instead when he hears an old man putting a curse on a vessel full of poor people bound for a new land across the sea. Cyrus puffs the Primrose out of the doldrums, sees her through a squall by making a life preserver of his body, smashes a threatening pirate ship, and finally tows his charge to shore when she loses her sails in a battle. Whereupon the landed passengers wave and cheer from atop a huge rock and Cyrus, ""very tired for some reason or other,"" goes off to rest for a month on a Caribbean island. Cyrus won't make history but Peet's crayoned storms, smashed hulls and volleys keep this moving at a comfortable clip while the general amiability makes it easy to drift along in Cyrus' wake. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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