The funny creature from "The City Survival Guide" picks a new book from her library tree: it's a Sea Survival Guide! She settles comfortably by the river, opens her book, but... how can she console this frog sobbing on her lily pad? Fortunately, the precious guide is full of solutions to every problem, and here begins a new wacky adventure! Jellyfish, pearls, and moray eels will be along for the ride this time. The comical and offbeat situations follow one another happily, as our favorite creature cleverly and ingeniously navigates the obstacles that separate him from a charming mermaid...
In the third volume of this series, which won a prestigious award at the Bologna Fair, Chinese author Hao Shuo poetically twists the codes of the instruction manual and playfully pokes fun at the traditional image of Prince Charming freeing his princess. Accurately constructing a seemingly simple and colorful universe, Hao Shuo actually never ceases to take his reader by surprise, and it is always funny and refreshing.