A picture book by Morwen Tresidder COMING
A white pup stranded at Wreckers Cove after a blow. Merryn knows the drill: don't touch, keep the dogs back, call her mum. A day of watching, a night of worrying — and an escort home nobody expected.
After a wild blow, Merryn finds a white seal-pup stranded at Wreckers Cove, small against the rocks and surf. She knows what to do: don’t touch, keep the dogs back, and call Dr Elowen, her mum. Morwen Tresidder turns the waiting into a gentle coastal drama, full of salt air, worried watching, and the hope that the returning tide will bring the right answer.
Children aged 4–7 will enjoy Merryn’s clear, practical steps, the bustle of keeping curious dogs away, and the delicious suspense of looking out to sea. The danger is real enough to matter, but held safely within a reassuring family-and-village response. With picture-book pacing, repeated watchwords and plenty of room for expressive reading aloud, this is an anxious-and-cosy rescue story for small animal lovers.
As part of Polperran Tales, Merryn and the Stranded Seal-Pup offers the youngest readers an early doorway into the village they can keep revisiting as they grow. It shares the everyday kindness of Polperran harbour life: local knowledge, care for wild creatures, parents with useful work, and the old sense that the sea is never quite ordinary. A quiet thread of Siren’s mystery glimmers beneath the sensible seal-rescue rules.