Author and publisher: Oliver Jeffers, HarperCollins Children’s Books
Summary: This book tells the fable of one man’s greed to own everything: the flowers, the mountains, the animals… Fausto shows them who is the boss by putting up a fight and making a fist, and they all obey. Finally, he reaches the sea, but the sea refuses to obey Fausto: “But you do not even love me,” says the sea. The sea asks Fausto to show her that he is the boss. Fausto climbs overboard to stamp his foot on the sea, but, unfortunately, he does not know how to swim….. The sea carries on being the sea, and all the others carry on with their business as before because “the fate of Fausto did not matter to them.”
Suitable for students in years: 5-10