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A mermaid's diary
Riddell, Chris2025
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Total copies: 6
Meet shy mermaid Atalanta Scrimshaw. She lives in the quiet backwater of Sleepy Cove, collects messages in bottles, rides seahorses and enjoys the hobby of 'walking' on the beach and visiting friends. Life is perfect, until Atalanta learns of plans by developers Bristle & Splinter to transform Sleepy Cove into a luxury, seaside golf resort. Realising that this plan will destroy her home, she enlists the help of her friends, old and new, to try to stop it...
Main title:
A mermaid's diary / Chris Riddell ; illustrated by Chris Riddell.
Author:
Riddell, Chris, illustrator
Work:
Edition:
First.
Imprint:
London : Macmillan, 2025.
Collation:
222 p. : B & W illustrations throughout ; 197 x 134 mm. 308 gm.
Audience:
Young People.Reading grade level: 7-9.Interest age level: 7-11.Interest grade level: KS2.
Biography/History:
Chris Riddell, the 2015-2017 UK Children's Laureate, is an accomplished artist and the political cartoonist for the Observer. He has enjoyed great acclaim for his books for children. His books have won a number of major prizes, including the 2001, 2004 and 2016 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals. Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse won the Costa Children's Book Award 2013. His work for Macmillan also includes the bestselling Ottoline books, The Emperor of Absurdia, and, with Paul Stewart, the Muddle Earth books, the Scavenger series and the Blobheads series. Chris has been honoured with an OBE in recognition of his illustration and charity work. He lives in Brighton with his family.
ISBN:
9781529009392 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
882814