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Author: Cristina Bacchilega Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0525505571 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 368
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Dive into centuries of mermaid lore with these captivating tales from around the world. A Penguin Classic Among the oldest and most popular mythical beings, mermaids and other merfolk have captured the imagination since long before Ariel sold her voice to a sea witch in the beloved Disney film adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid." As far back as the eighth century B.C., sailors in Homer's Odyssey stuffed wax in their ears to resist the Sirens, who lured men to their watery deaths with song. More than two thousand years later, the gullible New York public lined up to witness a mummified "mermaid" specimen that the enterprising showman P. T. Barnum swore was real. The Penguin Book of Mermaids is a treasury of such tales about merfolk and water spirits from different cultures, ranging from Scottish selkies to Hindu water-serpents to Chilean sea fairies. A third of the selections are published here in English for the first time, and all are accompanied by commentary that explores their undercurrents, showing us how public perceptions of this popular mythical hybrid--at once a human and a fish--illuminate issues of gender, spirituality, ecology, and sexuality.
Author: Cristina Bacchilega Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0525505571 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 368
Book Description
Dive into centuries of mermaid lore with these captivating tales from around the world. A Penguin Classic Among the oldest and most popular mythical beings, mermaids and other merfolk have captured the imagination since long before Ariel sold her voice to a sea witch in the beloved Disney film adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid." As far back as the eighth century B.C., sailors in Homer's Odyssey stuffed wax in their ears to resist the Sirens, who lured men to their watery deaths with song. More than two thousand years later, the gullible New York public lined up to witness a mummified "mermaid" specimen that the enterprising showman P. T. Barnum swore was real. The Penguin Book of Mermaids is a treasury of such tales about merfolk and water spirits from different cultures, ranging from Scottish selkies to Hindu water-serpents to Chilean sea fairies. A third of the selections are published here in English for the first time, and all are accompanied by commentary that explores their undercurrents, showing us how public perceptions of this popular mythical hybrid--at once a human and a fish--illuminate issues of gender, spirituality, ecology, and sexuality.
Author: Ellie Wharton Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0241418437 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 80
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This journal is full of magical discoveries waiting to be explored. Meet the mermaids of the oceans, bake some of their favourite food and uncover the facts about these secret, mystical creatures. Read about their secret skills, their special pets and how to seek out a mermaid in the big wide ocean blue. Learn how to become a mermaid seeker, how to care for these creatures and join Ruby, Head Mermaid Seeker, as you promise to look after your mermaid companion and protect their secret and their home. With mermaid stories to read, secrets to learn and much more, this is the perfect book for mermaid believers everywhere.
Author: Penguin Group Australia Publisher: ISBN: 9780734302816 Category : Mermaids Languages : en Pages : 16
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Match the objects on each page with the items in the pictures as you read about Ariel and her friends sharing another adventure in their kingdom under the sea.
Author: Sue Mongredien Publisher: ISBN: Category : Children's stories Languages : en Pages : 82
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The penguins have mysteriously disappeared from the icy seas and the mermaids are worried where can they be? Molly and her mermaid friend, Phoebe, search everywhere. Could the Dark Queen be behind all the trouble?
Author: Coral Ripley Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1408360012 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 86
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Paddling with penguins! The Sea Keepers explore the Galapagos Islands in this magical new series about saving our oceans. Emily, Grace and Layla go to the Galapagos Islands, where the local mermaids need help teaching baby penguins to swim. But when evil mermaid Effluvia uses her bad magic to spoil the penguins' paddling pool, the Sea Keepers must follow a pirate treasure map to a secret lagoon and find a magic pearl to help their penguin pals.
Author: Coral Ripley Publisher: Orchard Books ISBN: 9781408360002 Category : Languages : en Pages : 128
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Can penguins help find a magic pearl? The Sea Keepers explore the Galapagos Islands in this magical new series about saving our oceans. Emily, Grace and Layla are summoned by the Tropical Mermaids and sent to the Galapagos Islands, where a colony of rare penguins is under threat. Evil mermaid Effluvia can't go on the island, but she's enchanted crabs and sent them to pinch the magic pearl. Can the Sea Keepers stop the angry crustaceans and help their penguin pals?
Author: Linda Chapman Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141924772 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 59
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From the author of the My Secret Unicorn series. Electra, the nine-year old mermaid with legs instead of a tail is back and in search of even more adventure! It's New Year on Mermaid Island. Every year a young Queen of the New Year is chosen and Electra is desperate for it to be her! So she might get chosen, Electra and her dolphin friend, Splash, decide to swim over to the grotto to help the grown-ups decorate it for the New Party. But Electra and Splash get carried away and make a BIG mess in the grotto. Sent away to behave, the two of them discover tunnels at the back of the grotto which lead to the deep sea. All the tunnels are safely blocked up except one. Electra and Splash try and tell the adults but they are too busy fixing the mess to listen! So when a group of sharks swim down the tunnel and threaten to eat everybody it's up to Electra and Splash (and a giant ink squirting squid) to save the day!
Author: Christina Henry Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0399584056 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 336
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From the author of Lost Boy comes a beautiful historical fairy tale about a mermaid who leaves the sea, only to become the star attraction of history's greatest showman. Once there was a mermaid called Amelia who could never be content in the sea, a mermaid who longed to know all the world and all its wonders, and so she came to live on land. Once there was a man called P. T. Barnum, a man who longed to make his fortune by selling the wondrous and miraculous, and there is nothing more miraculous than a real mermaid. Amelia agrees to play the mermaid for Barnum and walk among men in their world, believing she can leave anytime she likes. But Barnum has never given up a money-making scheme in his life, and he's determined to hold on to his mermaid.
Author: Cristina Bacchilega
Author: Cristina Bacchilega
Author: Ellie Wharton
Author: Penguin Group Australia
Author: Sue Mongredien
Author: Coral Ripley
Author: Coral Ripley
Author: Linda Chapman
Author: Patrick McGuinness
Author: Christina Henry
Author: Cari Meister