The Girl and the Mermaid
Hardcover – Picture Book, June 18, 2024
Bloomsbury · Hardcover · June 18, 2024
From bestselling creators of The Girl and the Dinosaur comes a new picture book about the value of imagination and storytelling, and the love between a girl and her grandmother.
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- Who it’s for
- A fanciful undersea adventure brings imagination, family, and fading memories into a warm picture-book story.
- Themes
- Family love, Memory, Imagination and storytelling
- Genres
- Mermaids & Sea Magic, Multigenerational Families, Big Feelings
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From bestselling creators of The Girl and the Dinosaur comes a new picture book about the value of imagination and storytelling, and the love between a girl and her grandmother. Alina lives in a lighthouse by the sea: a home filled with the warmth of Granny's magical stories. But Alina is worried. Granny's memories and stories are starting to fade away, and she doesn't know how to bring them back.
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Then, one day, Alina meets a mermaid on the rocks near the lighthouse-and she's swept into a magical adventure deep under the sea. Can the mermaid help her find the stories, and can Alina help to keep the memories shining brightly? This heartwarming picture book takes readers on a deep and fanciful journey to explore the importance of family, memory, imagination, and storytelling.
Stories That Shine
A fanciful undersea adventure brings imagination, family, and fading memories into a warm picture-book story.
Come here for
- Mermaids, a seaside lighthouse, and a grandmother’s magical stories
- A tender thread of family love and memory
Expect
- A playful journey shaped by storytelling and imagination
- Warm, fanciful picture-book storytelling
Where it sits
| Mermaids & Sea Magic | 88% |
|---|---|
| Multigenerational Families | 87% |
| Big Feelings | 23% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Magic & Fantasy
- Big Feelings
- Mermaids & Sea Magic
- Authors
- Hollie Hughes
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Published
- June 18, 2024
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Family love · Memory · Imagination and storytelling
- Reading lane
- Magic & Fantasy