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Swashby and the Sea

Swashby and the Sea is a picture book with a heart as boundless as the ocean itself.

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Review of ‘Swashby and the Sea’

Captain Swashby is a reclusive, elderly man with an impressively unkempt beard. Having retired to a small house by the seashore, he is just fine with his “salty and sandy and serene” life of solitude in in Beth Ferry and Juana Martinez-Neal’s charming Swashby and the Sea.

That is, until unwelcome new neighbors appear: a…

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