Download or read book The Boy who Held Back the Sea written by Lenny Hort and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan had never done anything more heroic then shout for the guard beacuse he'd imagined he'd seen a sea serpent. But when Jan discovers water trickling through a desolate stretch of the dike that protects his low-lying village, he knows that he has to act quickly. Full color.