Out to Sea follows the journey of a young girl named Lara who is so sad after the death of her grandmother that she is carried out to sea on a flood of her own tears. When it seems like sadness has overwhelmed her entirely, she discovers a pearl at the bottom of the ocean that triggers memories of the many happy times Lara shared with her grandmother. With the pearl safely at her side, Lara realises that she is not alone and finds the strength to pick up her oars and row herself back home.
Illustrated in Helen Kellock’s inimitable style of pencil, gouache and watercolour artworks, Out to Sea expresses the experience of anxiety and grief with unprecedented sensitivity. Unlike other books for children about loss or grief that usher their readers towards a conclusion, Out to Sea shows readers how they might ride the wave of emotions without losing perspective.
This is Book 16 in the Children's Picture Books: Emotions, Feelings, Values and Social Habilities (Teaching Emotional Intel Series. See all Children's Picture Books: Emotions, Feelings, Values and Social Habilities (Teaching Emotional Intel books here.
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Helen Kellock is an illustrator and artist based in Glasgow with a Masters in Illustration from the Glasgow School of Art. Her sample artwork for The Star in the Forest won the Batsford Prize for Children's Illustration 2018 and was highly commended for the Macmillan Book Prize. She was also highly commended in the Penguin Random House Student
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