Henry was an American boy who lived on the island of St. Thomas, in the blue Caribbean sea.

More than anything in the world, Henry wanted to be a fisherman. No matter what he was doing, Henry thought of his father's boat, the Ariadne, and of how some day he would sail far out to sea.

When the great day came, and Henry went on his first fishing trip, he had an adventure that not every boy had on a first trip. And after that Henry was, as his mother said, "a fisherman for true."

Here in five colors, coral and dark green, turquoise and gold and brown, is Henry's tropical home, the beaches, the sea, the fishing boats, the market and coconut groves of St. Thomas. Henry's story is warmly and appealingly told with real feeling for the setting and for the idioms of island speech.

From the dust jacket