**Winner of the BookTrust Storytime Prize 2026**
Get ready to scuttle, swim, wiggle and jiggle in this delightful rhyming story which gets children reading and moving along!
When we were at the beach today, a little crab came by.
"Come scuttle with me," said the crab. "Scuttling's fun, let's try!"
Whirl and wiggle! Whirl and wiggle!
Let's SCUTTLE and SNAP to the Jellyfish Jiggle!
Learn to move like your seaside friends at the beach and under water! Dive with the penguin, rock the pelican's boat and wiggle, jiggle and giggle with the jellyfish! Everyone can join the fun in or out of the water!
Features a main character with a prosthetic limb showing all the fun exercise moves.
This fantastic water-themed story from Caryl Hart and Nicola Slater, the duo behind The Safari Stomp, is perfect for getting little ones excited about swimming.
Kids will love this hilarious fairy tale adventure packed with clever twists, familiar characters and page-turning fun.
The second book in a fabulous new magical, middle-grade series filled with adventure, wonder and wildness,
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Caryl Hart Biography
Caryl Hart write picture books and young fiction and runs creative literacy workshops for schools, libraries, communities and festivals. Her books have won and been shortlisted for many regional and national awards. Meet the Oceans was one of Waterstones Best Books for Babies & Toddlers 2021 and Books for Topics' Best EYFS Curric
Nicola Slater is a professional illustrator and a semi-professional coffee-drinker. She studied illustration at Buckinghamshire chilterns university and now lives and works amongst utter chaos in Manchester with her family and a very bad cat.
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