Melody and The Cabo Ice Sculpture

The story

Melody turns everything she hears into a song, and she is never without her little microphone. Wading in the creek with Shoer, she sings into it beside an echoing rock wall, and she doesn't hear the rocks tumbling down until they cover her.

She splashes into the warm Sea of Cortez in Mexico, where a crab who likes the name Little Bugger becomes her friend. Then a little girl scoops them both into a bucket, and she has very big party plans.

The real place: Sea of Cortez

Three things to tell your kid after the story.

1. 1The Sea of Cortez lies between Mexico's long Baja California peninsula and the mainland of Mexico.
2. 2At Cabo San Lucas, a famous rock arch called El Arco stands where the Sea of Cortez meets the Pacific Ocean.
3. 3The sea is so full of whales, dolphins and fish that explorer Jacques Cousteau is said to have called it the world's aquarium.

Next stop

EP 132 · Japan

Shoer

Loves shoes.

EP 133 · Poland

Imaginativa

Has a huge imagination.