Coral Rumble
Holiday adventures in the Italian countryside lead to new friendships and understanding in Jakub’s Otter.
“Thoughtful, kind, and wise.”
This book is full of delights – forests, friendship, poems, bears, wolves, and OTTERS!
Jakub’s Otter features on the Story Garden Book Collection.
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What’s it about?
Award-winning poet Coral Rumble tells the story of ten-year-old Jakub Polanski who cares for his single mum, Maria, who has multiple sclerosis. To give Jakub a break, life-long family friends, the Koniks, take Jakub on holiday to Italy.
While there Jakub learns about Marta’s passion for writing poetry and storytelling, and she shows him that freedom and adventure are there for the taking. He discovers he is funny and smart and is not only defined by being a carer.
And, in Italy, Jakub finds hope as he listens to an old, wise woodsman, who teaches him about otters, especially one injured otter called Piccolo…
