The Search for Carmella
From Waterstones Children's Book Prize winner Chloe Savage comes a magical and suspenseful picture book of deep sea exploration, ideal to gift to children aged 4 and above at Christmas
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Walker Books Ltd
Published:28th Aug '25
Should be back in stock very soon
From the author-illustrator of The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish, winner of the Waterstones Children's Book of the Year 2024: Best Illustrated Book.
WATERSTONES BEST BABY & TODDLER BOOKS OF 2024
"Captivatingly detailed. The slow, delicious tension builds in breathtaking illustrations. A huge hit." Irish Examiner
"Entrancing" Belfast Telegraph
A stunning tale where myth meets science and magic.
Ever since Dr Rose was a little girl paddling in rock pools, she has always loved the sea and exploring the weird and wonderful creatures living there. Now, as a marine biologist, Dr Rose is in search of a sea creature rumoured to reside within its hidden depths; one that many speak of, but no one has ever seen – Carmella. With her team of scientists and explorers, she will descend to the unfathomable dark of the deep ocean in a slick submersible, to discover the incredible, and almost unbelievable, creatures that inhabit a nearly pitch-black world.
Discover more of Chloe Savage's Hidden Wonders series:
The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish
The Search for Our Cosmic Neighbours
Featured, The Bookseller November Children’s Previews * The Bookseller *
Featured in ‘The Best Baby & Toddler Books of 2024’ * Waterstones *
The Search for Carmella is hotly anticipated and Savage doesn’t disappoint ... The story has a magical quality- and even more special is it puts a female scientist at its heart. * The Courier Dundee *
A dreamy delight from beginning to end, stunningly illustrated in such a way as to evoke the awe and wonder of possibility and reality. In addition to wow moments there are spreads that show the interior of the submersible making this, the author’s follow up to her debut The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish another fusion of science, strangeness and mystery. * Books for Keeps *
exquisitely illustrated, right from the endpapers of the book, to the awe-inspiring two page spreads throughout […] a visual masterpiece of watery wonders and magical mystery […] sure to inspire young explorers, big dreamers and little scientists and researchers. * Mini Travellers *
- Nominated for Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2026 (UK)
ISBN: 9781529523171
Dimensions: 298mm x 206mm x 5mm
Weight: 210g
40 pages