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Captain Starfish

Alfie wants to participate in the best parts of being a kid, from his friend Antoinette s birthday party to the relay races at school. But his shyness keeps him from engaging. When Alfie wakes up with That Feeling on the morning of yet another big event the underwater costume parade his mom takes hi...

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Main Author: Bell, Davina (Author)
Other Authors: Colpoys, Allison (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2018.
Subjects:
Anxiety > Juvenile fiction.
Bashfulness > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:Alfie wants to participate in the best parts of being a kid, from his friend Antoinette s birthday party to the relay races at school. But his shyness keeps him from engaging. When Alfie wakes up with That Feeling on the morning of yet another big event the underwater costume parade his mom takes him to the aquarium.
Item Description:"Originally published in 2015 under the title The underwater fancy-dress parade by Scribble, an imprint of Scribe"--Title page verso.
Alfie's anxiety often keeps him from engaging in fun activities, but he learns a valuable lesson at the aquarium when a tiny clownfish swims up to him for a quick hello and then retreats, showing Alfie there is a happy medium between hiding away and being a star.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
ISBN:9781419728372
1419728377
Author Notes:Davina Bell is an Australian writer, editor and literary consultant. She worked as an editor at Penguin Australia for six years. Her first novels were in of the Australian Girls series which includes Meet Alice, Alice and the Apple Blossom Fair, Alice of Peppermint Grove and Peacetime for Alice. The Underwater Fancy-dress Parade (illustrated by Allison Colpoys) is her first picture book. It won of the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards Small publishers' children's book of the year and the 2016 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Award, Crichton Award for New Illustrators. She also wrote Hattie Helps Out (co-written with Jane Godwin and Freya Blackwood), Oh, Albert (co-written with Sara Acton), A Thousand Silver Ghosts (a short story included in the anthology, Where the Shoreline Used to Be), and Under the Love Umbrella.

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