“Maybe this sea glass had been a vase or a bottle or a jar. Maybe someone had once loved it.”
“Maybe this sea glass had been a vase or a bottle or a jar. Maybe someone had once loved it.”
In my classroom, this can be linked to discussions on historical artifacts, the power of memory, and how simple objects can connect us to the past. It also opens up opportunities to explore descriptive writing and visual storytelling.
This book is a historical fiction picture book published in 2019. The story follows a young boy named Thomas who spends the summer with his grandmother and discovers sea glass washed up on the shore, each piece telling a story of the past.