内容简介:Peter has a special place by the sea where he knows all the denizens of the shore and the tide: some of them even come when he calls them. Then an oil tanker founders on the rocks close by, and oil washes up on the shoreline. A massive clean up operation is necessary to save the lives of Peter's creatures, and a long time later there is still a sticky black residue just below the surface. A very strong ecological message written in clear but uncompromising prose, and hauntingly illustrated by Michael Foreman.