Delacorte Press

for The Pull of the Ocean written by Jean-Claude Mourlevat and translated from the French by Y. Maudet

The book cover of "The Pull of the Ocean" by Jean-Claude Mourlevat features seven brothers (three sets of twins and their youngest brother) standing on a hill facing the ocean. A seabird flies overhead. The Mildred L. Batchelder Award seal has been affixed on the right side of the book, below the title and author.

About

This contemporary version of the Tom Thumb story follows charismatic Yann, youngest and smallest of seven brothers, as he silently leads his siblings across the rain-soaked French countryside. Their harrowing flight from abusive parents is described through the recollections of the boys themselves and through the distinctive voices of those who witness or abet their journey.

Awards Won

Title Year
batchelder-gold-watermark2-154x154.png Mildred L. Batchelder Award
This award, established in Mildred L. Batchelder's honor in 1966, is a citation awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.
 2007 - Winner(s)