VICTORIA TURNBULL is an emerging star in the picture book world, whose talent led her to win the 2013 Association of Illustrators New Talent Award, Children's Book category. The Sea Tiger was one of the hot debuts of 2014 and has been nominated for the Kate Greenaway 2015 medal. Key bloggers are taking note, with The Sea Tiger described as 'quite heart-stoppingly beautiful' (The Book Sniffer), 'A book full of life, movement and fluidity, and yet at times utterly still ... truly magical' (The Illustrated Forest), and demonstrating 'echoes of Sendak' (Jill Bennett).