"At last the fishing net lay in the bottom of the boat. Lek stepped forward and opened the net. He picked up the blue and white thing. It was a plate. Lek started to laugh. 'We've caught a plate - an old plate! Shall I throw it back into the sea?' he asked Daeng. 'No, no, wait a minute!' said Daeng. 'Give it to me.' He looked at the plate carefully. 'I saw a picture of a plate like this in the newspaper,' he said. 'The plate was very old. It was worth a lot of money.' " -- back cover.