The Boy At Tideline: A Read-Aloud Fantasy Adventure (The Tideline Chronicles, Book 1)

Five-year-old Timmy Calloway only meant to step into the waves.But when the water at the edge of the beach begins to glow, Timmy passes through the Tideline into the Saltworld: a vast and mysterious sea where ships sail under impossible skies, sailors tell stories older than memory, and not every treasure is meant to be opened. Pulled aboard the Morningstar, Timmy meets Captain Jack Flint, the steady Willem Thorne, a young deckhand named Pip, and a cook who only speaks in questions. But the strangest thing he brings aboard is a small sealed bottle marked with an ancient symbol, a bottle said to hold a name. A name spoken before the Saltworld itself began. When something vast rises from the deep and the crew has nothing left to fight it with, Timmy learns that courage does not always sound brave. Sometimes the bravest thing in the world is the smallest, quietest word a frightened child can say. The Boy at the Tideline is the first adventure in The Tideline Chronicles, a read-aloud pirate fantasy series about wonder, courage, trust, and a name older than the sea, written in the tradition of Narnia and the Wingfeather Saga: real peril, real warmth, and quiet convictions. Illustrated throughout, with an original image opening every chapter. Written to be read aloud to children ages 4+, and an early chapter book that confident young readers can enjoy on their own from about age 7.