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Download or read book Maya and the Sea Dragon written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Maya and the Sea Dragon' is a fantasy adventure playscript highlighting Sydney Harbour's amazing sea life. Seven-year-old Maya has been dreaming about a sea dragon waking underneath the harbour. She meets a young hermit crab and seahorse on the beach and travels with them underwater to the Seaweedy Bay Home for Elderly Sea Folk. Its unusual occupants include an elderly ex-opera singer mermaid, deaf but invincibly optimistic, and a rock lobster who enjoys practical jokes. The friends perform the seahorse greeting ritual and underwater school song for the residents. When two erratic submariners who have been lost around Sydney Harbour for decades find a bomb nearby, the three decide to find help to defuse it. A weedy sea dragon advises them to ask Samsara, the ancient sea dragon. Despite the dangers he poses, Maya persuades him to help. She promises to send Samsara to a new home in the stars because Sydney Harbour is so crowded and polluted. Maya also agrees to help inspire others to clean up the water, since Samsara is leaving an egg behind to hatch. However, they discover the bomb is just a cannonball. But the sea creatures do manage to send Samsara into space, and Maya returns. Her grandfather lovingly puts her exciting tale down to an active imagination. Accurate and fascinating information about sea creatures is an integral part of the story, including that male seahorses become pregnant and give birth. The need to look after the environment is clear, along with thinking about the sea from its inhabitants' point of view. This book was commissioned by Marian Street Theatre for Young People to celebrate its fiftieth birthday. It will be performed in Sydney in July 2019.