Poems, stories, fables – hard to pin down exactly what kind of book The King and the Sea is and, luckily, no need to try. Beautifully read by Sarah Peirse and Tom Hobbs, musical pictures by Peter Dasent. Big thank you to Gecko Press for allowing this transformation from page to audio.

• The King and the Sea, by Wolf Erlbruch, illustrated by Heinz Janisch. Read by Sarah Peirse and Tom Hobbs, with music by Peter Dasent.
• ‘Beautiful Beautiful’, Justine Clarke, from Great Big World.

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