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Henry and the Magic Crayon: Under the Sea

Henry cannot sleep. His head is full of sea. So he draws a fine submarine, with a periscope too, and the magic crayon does the rest. Down they dive, Henry and Cecil, past a coral reef, a shimmering shoal, a wise old turtle, leaping dolphins, a colour-changing octopus, a friendly shark, glowing jellyfish, a sunken ship with a golden bone, the deep dark, and the biggest, gentlest whale of all, before floating home on moonbeams to bed.

Ages: Ages 2 to 5, with a grown-up-led Together mode for younger children

Themes: Bedtime, Imagination, The sea, Bravery, Wonder, Coming home

Henry draws with: yellow, green, blue crayons.

Start the adventureRead together

Find a copy

Not on sale yet. Book two is a complete draft manuscript. Illustrations, ISBN and edition details follow once the art is generated. Retail and library links will appear here when the edition is ready.

Inside the companion

The companion does not replace the book. Read mode adds page cues and prediction pauses to the physical copy; the games take their shapes from the story; the passport collects 17 stamps for this adventure.

Glug, Beep, Dive!

Close the hatch, switch on the lights, start the propeller and count down to dive.

Sponge seats, GLUG and BEEP, page 6

Crayon Submarine Workshop

Draw a submarine with magic crayons. Every stroke sparkles and becomes real.

Henry draws a fine submarine with a periscope too, pages 3 to 5

Guess Who's Swimming Past

Cecil peers through the glass. Listen to the clue and choose who is swimming past.

The repeating guessing pages before each creature

Count the Fish

Give the coral reef the number of fish Henry asks for.

The coral reef and the shoal of fish, pages 7 and 9

Fish Finder

Steer the crayon submarine up and down through the sea and find every fish in the shoal.

The shimmering shoal that turns all together, page 9

Quiet Moonbeams

Tap a few bubbles to hear soft sounds. Then just float and watch.

Moonbeams and a million small bubbles, page 26

Explorer stamps

The refrain

In the book: "Come on, Cecil, peer through the glass. Can you guess who's swimming past?"
In the companion: "Come on, Cecil, peer through the glass. Can you guess who's swimming past?"

Book two's refrain needs no change for the companion: 'who's swimming past' already covers the shipwreck and the deep dark.