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The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean is a book for children based on Alastair’s experiences rowing the Atlantic. It is a loose sequel to the best-selling The Boy Who Biked the World trilogy, suitable for children aged 7–12.
262 pages
Description
‘After nearly 20 years of teaching geography to girls – I have never come across a more beautifully written book about an adventure for a girl, that contains so many geographical elements or useful life skills! I cannot recommend highly enough!’ – Mrs Naughton, Head of Humanities
‘An inspirational ocean adventure’ – Bear Grylls
‘The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean is an inspiring and passionate text, based on the author’s own experiences, that will challenge children to find a way to reach their goals. A compelling blend of adventure, diary, advice and motivation, The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean is also a great looking flapped paperback which uses an accessible typeface and a clever cartoon flip book effect at the bottom of each right-hand page.’ – School Reading List
‘The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean is an inspiring and passionate text that will challenge children to find a way to reach their goals. It’s ideal for children aged 9-12 in upper primary KS2. Highly recommended.’ – Amazon review
‘Lucy wants a real adventure and decides to row across the Atlantic. She has wonderful experiences (shooting stars, dolphins, sea turtles, whales, storm petrels, bioluminescence), and terrifying ones (storms, gigantic cargo ships). She learns to assess risk, and that even when she cannot control the situation she can choose how to react. This is an inspiring book about what we can achieve if we take that crucial step that commits us to turn a dream to reality, and how even a distant goal can be reached by chipping away at it little by little. The novel is interspersed with informative little pieces of homework written by Lucy’s classmates, who follow her journey and do research on the ocean. The fact that the author has actually rowed across the Atlantic makes for a realistic and engaging story.’ – Five Books, Best Kids’ Books of 2022
Lucy wants to explore the world, and do something daring and difficult. But people laugh at her when she hatches a plan to row across the Atlantic Ocean.
So her family rallies round to help prepare for the journey, loading her boat with supplies for 3,000 miles of rowing. Her school friends follow her from afar, learning about the ocean, its wildlife and pollution.
Alone at sea, Lucy faces seasickness, storms and a very sore bottom, not to mention close encounters with ships and a humpback whale. Yet there are also the joys of wandering seabirds, shooting stars and magical sunsets, as she finds she is capable of more than she ever imagined.
Step aboard and join Lucy on her life-changing adventure to become the girl who rowed the ocean.
Author Biography:
Alastair Humphreys is a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. He has cycled around the world, rowed the Atlantic Ocean and walked a lap of the M25 – one of his pioneering microadventures.
He is the best-selling author of 14 books, including Great Adventurers, which won the Stanford’s Children’s Travel Book of the Year and the Teach Primary Award for Non-Fiction.
He has written eight books for Eye including the best-selling The Boy Who Biked the World trilogy, a series of novels for 7–12-year-olds based on the real-life adventures he recounted in Moods of Future Joys, Thunder and Sunshine and Ten Lessons from the Road. His more recent The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean is a similarly novelised version of his transatlantic crossing.
Reviews:
- ‘An inspirational ocean adventure’ – Bear Grylls
- ‘Lucy’s epic voyage brought back happy memories of my own ocean crossings. It’s a realistic and inspiring tale of adventure at sea’ – Sarah Outen
- ‘The perfect handbook for anyone young or old in search of adventure’ – Steve Backshall
- ‘Rowing the Atlantic and caring for our wild places are very close to my heart. Well done, Lucy!’ – Ben Fogle
- ‘We need more young people like Lucy getting active and having adventures in the freedom of nature’ – Helen Glover
- ‘Don’t underestimate the power and strength of young people. We all have a part to play in protecting our oceans, no matter our age!’ – Ella Meek, Kids Against Plastic
- ‘The thing we are most excited about in this book is how well it fits in with our curriculum’ – Karen Allen, assistant head teacher and English lead at Lydiate Primary School, Liverpool
Promotional Information:
An ocean-going follow-up to The Boy Who Biked the World, the three parts of which have together sold more than 100,000 copies. Both works are fictionalised versions of the author’s own real-life adventures.
ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS has rowed the Atlantic and cycled around the planet. A National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, he is the best-selling author of 14 books, including The Boy Who Biked the World trilogy and Great Adventurers, which won the Stanford’s Children’s Travel Book of the Year and the Teach Primary Award for Non-Fiction. He is a qualified teacher, and The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean leans heavily on the KS2 syllabus.
Additional information
Weight | .245 kg |
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Dimensions | 19.8 × 12.7 × 2 cm |
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