Susea Spray
Author of A Big Blue Boat and A Day on the Brine, Susea loves playing with words, sharing her stories and sailing.
Susea’s achievements include being Picture Book Genre Award winner, Page Turner Awards (2022): A Day on the Brine; Purple Dragonfly Award winner (2023): A Big Blue Boat, Longlisted Pitch It! Competition (2024): Moon Song, and Literary Titan Gold Book Award winner (2025): A Day in the Brine.
In the grey morning light on a windless sea,
rocked a big blue boat
with its captain as brave as can be.
Whales sang their song,
and a bell ding donged,
as the wind began to blow.
The glassy waters rippled,
and the sails filled and billowed.
Rustle and bustle! Rustle and bustle!
Waters gently rose and waters gently fell,
as a big blue boat and her captain brave,
sailed along on the rolling swell.
Swish, swish, swash! Swish, swish, swash!
THEN,
down in the south where the waters were cold,
dark sheets of grey way up high,
gently unfolded and darkened the sky,
as closer and closer and closer they breezed,
over the wide, open seas…
And down from the desert way up in the north,
billowing towers
hurtled on forth!
