![]() ![]() ![]() The Tail of Emily Windsnap is a great book to start a series. Beeston’s visits? With some help from Shona, Emily starts aligning the clues together and what they find out changes her life forever. Why is the lighthouse keeper always around? And why does her mom seem to forget what she had told her after Mr. For a while, she is the only person who knows her secret, but then she meets another mermaid friend, Shona, who shows her a whole new world beneath the sea.Įmily starts to wonder could this be the reason why her mother never allowed her in the water, even though her family lives on a boat? And then, the lighthouse keeper starts acting strangely towards her, and Emily begins getting suspicious. But after she’s used to this transformation, she’s happy and starts swimming secretly in the ocean to test her newly discovered abilities. And it does: she sees her legs turn into a long green tail when in water and morph back to normal when out of water. Her legs feel like they’ve bound together as soon as she gets into the pool, and then normal when she gets out of the water, and it scares her out. She discovers the secret by accident during her seventh grade swim class- the first time she dived into the water. The first book in Emily Windsnap introduces us to the main character Emily Windsnap who lives on a boat but has a big secret. The main character in the series is Emily Windsnap, who’s a half mermaid. Kessler’s editor recommended that she turn the poem into a book. The series traces its origin from a poem that Kessler wrote about a girl who lived on a boat but had a big secret. The series began in 2003 with the publication of The Tail of Emily Windsnap and its continuing as of 2019. Review: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau.Emily Windsnap is a collection of children’s fantasy books written by British author Liz Kessler and illustrated by Sarah Gibb.I read this one because I had to do a booktalk on it (and I do love mermaids) and I don't regret it, but I don't really care what happens to the Windsnap family.īut I'd recommend it to 7-10 year-old girls and their parents, it's a fun little story and I'd say it's certainly better than reading the latest Hannah Montana paperback or whatever type of fairies Daisy Meadows is up to now. It's not a bad story, but there's not a whole lot of character development and I rather found the way the mer-people had been controlling her mother for 12 years pretty creepy. I wouldn't not recommend it to adult readers, but it's definitely a younger kids' book with not a lot to it. All ends well when the family is reunited and swims away to live a new life on a secret merfolk island." Beeston her mother's dislike of water and her parents' love affair. ![]() Eventually, she finds her dad and comes to understand the truth about her oddly controlling neighbor, Mr. Danger, humor, confrontation, and even a trial before Neptune all play a part in her search. When Emily learns the intriguing history of the Shiprock community and of illegal marriages between humans and merpeople, she begins to look for her merman father. Below the waves, she meets Shona, also 12, who takes her to mermaid school and leads her on several adventures. Soon, she is secretly gliding through the water as a mermaid. She tries to hide her strange affliction, but something draws her to the sparkling surf. When she finally takes a swimming class at school, her legs turn into a fishtail. Here's how School Library Journal sums the book up: "Seventh-grader Emily Windsnap has never learned to swim, in spite of the fact that she and her mother live on a houseboat. :-) It's also about interspecies breeding and wrongful imprisonment, how's that for a children's story?! What else is the book about? Are you interested in reading the sequel? It's also a children's book. However, I've only read the back of the book. Jennie asked: From what I know, The Tail of Emily Windsnap is about being a mermaid. The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler ![]()
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