![]() ![]() And in the meantime, the clock is ticking-will William and Mary find the other half of the shell in time? Some are beautiful (coral reefs), some scary (the fall of Atlantis), some amusing (a whale hotel). William has half a shell, that can transport the two of them into any undersea scenario inspired by art, music, photograph.and so, interspersed with the mundane but not uninteresting story of two kids racketing around an English school and its seaside environs are a series of underwater adventures. William is the somewhat older boy forced to spend part of his holiday at the school while his parents contemplate divorce, and to Mary's surprise, he actually seems happy to be friends with her. Mary is the only girl at the English boarding school run by her parents its a lonely life, especially when the school is empty during vacation, and it's made her somewhat socially awkward and diffident. It was a frequent summer-at-grandparents library re-read (though not a best beloved one), and so I was very happy indeed when my sister gave it to me for my birthday this year.Īnd I was even more happy to find that it held up rather well, and in fact I think I like it more now than I did then. ![]() Back in the day, when I was young, I only knew of one other book by her- William and Mary (1974). ![]() ![]() Penelope Farmer is best known to me as the author of Charlotte Sometimes, a book I hold dear. ![]()
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