The only children's book British novelist and poet Angela Carter ever wrote is a rare delight. It is both a dryly comic and deeply moving account of Sea Cat, his mother, Dragon King and the undersea world “which of course is like the real world but it isn't because everything is wet”.

Dragon King's desperate loneliness fueled by a desire to be beautiful leads him to finding warmth and friendship in the kindness of Sea Cat and his Mother.

Having been found in a drawer following Carter's death the book was posthumously published in 2000 with illustrations by Bulgarian born Eva Tatcheva.

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2000, Hardback, 96pages.