The  serpent came to Gloucester
By: M.T. Anderson ; illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline.
Contributors: Ibatoulline, Bagram, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Subjects: Sea monsters -- Fiction.; Fishers -- Fiction.; Stories in rhyme.; Gloucester (Mass.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Rhyming text tells of a sea serpent that plays off the coast of Massachusetts the summer of 1817, and is hunted upon its return the next year. Includes a page of facts upon which the story is based.