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Oliver and the Seawigs

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Oliver and the Seawigs by Philip Reeve, and Sarah McIntyre

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By Philip Reeve, and and, Sarah McIntyre

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Oliver grew up in a family of explorers – but his biggest adventure is about to begin!

Along with his new friends, a grumpy old albatross, a short-sighted mermaid and a friendly island called Cliff, Oliver goes off in search of his missing parents. But before he can put his rescue plan into action there’s the evil Stacey de Lacey and an army of pesky sea monkeys to contend with . . . EEP!

Award-winning dynamic duo, Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre, have created a book bursting with eccentric characters and stunning two colour illustrations. This book has been shortlisted for the 2014 Blue Peter Book Awards, in the Best Story category.

‘A delightfully told, beautiful tale of nautical hairdressing, saltwater primates and sarcastic seaweed – this is my kind of book!’ Chris Riddell

Reviews

28 Jan 2025

This was a great yet unusual book full of adventure, interesting characters and an enjoyable read.

21 Jan 2025

I liked Oliver. He was on a big adventure and I love adventure stories. Yes, definitely I would recommend this to others

01 Oct 2024

Fun adventure.

03 Aug 2024

I really enjoyed the book because it's really interesting and there's not really anything like it

10 Sep 2023

Very laughy

10 Sep 2023

Super funny, I really liked the story and the illustrations.

01 Sep 2023

I think it was a bit lame

20 Aug 2023

it was funny

13 Aug 2023

I like it because there are a lot of details about adventures.

11 Aug 2023

I liked this book because I liked the wigs on the sea wigs and I liked cliff’s one.

08 Aug 2023

this book waas fun to read because the betrayal...I love it!

05 Aug 2023

I would recommend this book to anyone who loves adventures

30 Jun 2023

I thought Oliver and Cliff were very brave by standing up for themselves against bullies.

16 Aug 2022

Oliver and the sea wig is my fourth book .My favourite page was the page that we discovered that Oliver’s parent had been exploring ever since he was born . My favourite character are the sea monkeys
because they are funny . I would recommend this book .

01 Aug 2022

A great adventure story

08 Jul 2022

My favourite character was Oliver and sure I would like to recommend to other kids it’s an enjoyable book.

17 Jun 2022

I’m only on chapter 2 but as I’ve read so far I’m going to enjoy this book I would recommend it for confident young readers because it’s very engaging

02 Jan 2022

I like this book because it has so many sea adventures. In one of the sea adventures,Oliver finds a seawig that is alive and a blind mermaid .I also like the part when Oliver saved all the seawigs from the therlstone and I like the bit where Oliver tickled the therlstone. I also like the part where Oliver, the mermaid (Iris) and Cliff (the seawig) found the water mole (submerine).

23 Aug 2021

This is a lovely story that a boy and girl would enjoy. All about life at sea and friendships formed. A great read

22 Aug 2021

I like Oliver because he was brave.

12 Aug 2021

I borrowed this book from the library as I had read it at school. It is a gripping tale and I enjoyed this book but I would recommend it to people who like adventures.

11 Aug 2021

I liked this book because it was an awesome interesting book I would recommend this book

09 Aug 2021

itwas so scary

01 Aug 2021

This book is horribly babish. I would recommend this to people like 1 or 2 years old.

29 Jul 2021

I liked cliff because at the end of the book he was under the house and I was surprised when I saw him as a alive and talking island.l recommend this book to Philip Ardagh.

22 Dec 2020

I thought it is a book on how Oliver went on a sea adventure and he discovered about taking mermaids and birds and moving and talking isles. This is fiction book and my favorite character is Oliver. I would recommend it to people who like adventure, chapters and picture books.

19 Oct 2020

My Y4s chose this as their first class read of the year and adored it! It is hilarious, engaging and very well written!

In the tradition of Roald Dahl, Oliver's hapless parents need to be saved from themselves and luckily Oliver and his new found friends are there to help. Their adventures take them on a journey of discovery through an imaginary sea filled with grumpy isles, mad monkeys and the odd diva.

This is absolute proof that funny books for children need not be badly written! Our head teacher covered a few sessions in my classroom and loved reading this to the children! We have had to fill her in on the bits she missed.

28 Sep 2020

I liked the characters.

09 Sep 2020

I loved this book because it's really adventerous and really easy to read. It's an amazing book and if your thinking of reading it it's defenately worth reading!

01 Sep 2020

It was a brilliant book full of adventure

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