Walker, Shiv, and Genoa are marooned on Plumb Island with the crew of the Jacklight, their ship in tatters. As they plan their escape, Walker corresponds with his grandfather using his sea-faring message jug. He learns that a gold-trimmed ship, billowed in storm clouds, has arrived in Winooski Bay. And one of its passengers is a clairvoyant woman who knows the secrets of Atlantis - and she looks exactly like Genoa. Drawing from sources as disparate as Tintin, the Iliad, Kidnapped!, and Moby Dick, Renier has woven together a breathless tale that will leave readers with their ears ringing from the cannonshot, and their eyes dazzled from the glowing stares of seawitches.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 9+ years.

There are 288 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2018 by Roaring Brook Press .

Aaron Renier is the Eisner award-winning author of Spiral-Bound and The Unsinkable Walker Bean , and one of the creative forces behind Infinite Corpse , an online collaborative comic with hundreds of contributors. He was born and raised in Green Bay Wisconsin in a very artistic family. In middle school Aaron had trouble focusing on reading until a teacher suggested he write book reports in the form of comics. It worked and it made him into a better reader of all kinds of books. Looking back, Aaron still sees those reports as his first works as a cartoonist. Aaron currently teaches drawing and comics at universities in Chicago.