by Michael Morpurgo · Egmont Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781405209502
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«Mairi's Mermaid» is the children's fantasy story by Michael Morpurgo, published by Egmont Books Ltd in paperback (48 pages, in English).
Mairi cannot swim and envies the sea creatures that glide through the water with ease. When a crab bites her while she holds a little mermaid trapped, Mairi decides to help her return to her rock. The adventure leads her to meet a colony of mermaids and to discover that perhaps swimming is within her reach.
It is part of the Blue Bananas series, illustrated by Lucy Richards and published in 2003.
For early readers aged 5 to 7, with simple vocabulary and illustrations on every page to build confidence reading in English.
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War. Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity.
