Author: Patricia PolaccoPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399166920
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
"Stella loves books so much, she starts her own library--but then a storm threatens to destroy everything"--
The Mermaid's Purse
Author: Patricia PolaccoPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399166920
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
"Stella loves books so much, she starts her own library--but then a storm threatens to destroy everything"--
My Mermaid Purse
Author: Make Believe Ideas LtdPublisher:
ISBN: 9781789473933
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Mermaid's Purse
Author: Ted HughesPublisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375805691
Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In The Mermaid's Purse, Ted Hughes explores the ocean. From starfish and seagulls to mermaids and monsters, 28 poems capture the beauty, drama, and mystery of the sea and the seashore. Here is the ghostly cormorant: "Drowned fishermen come back/As famished cormorants/With bare and freezing webby toes/Instead of boots and pants." The strange and comical flounder: "The flounder sees/Through crooked eyes./Through crooked lips/The flounder cries." And the mermaid herself: "Call her a fish, /Call her a girl./Call her the pearl/Of an oyster fresh/On its pearly dish." By turns lyrical, whimsical, and robust, The Mermaid's Purse showcases the distinctive voice and appreciation of the natural world that made Ted Hughes among the most respected of late-20th-century poets. Made doubly accessible by Flora McDonnell's distinctive black-and-white art, this sea-themed collection will delight children and be welcomed by educators.
The Mermaid's Purse
Author: Katy GardnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780141006741
Category : College teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The deepest secrets drive the darkest currents. Strange tides are acting upon Cass Bainbridge. Impelling her to leave London and the comfortable home she shares with her partner, to take up a lecturing job on the south coast. But Brighton isn't the natural choice for a woman with a long-standing fear of the sea. And dealing with some of the students on her course - surly, difficult or just plain odd - against the backdrop of a series of attacks on campus, means Cass is soon finding elements of her new life distinctly disturbing. Painful memories begin closing in on her; the spectre of a secret that finally tore apart her damaged childhood and changed her life for ever. And the sense she is being stalked - a series of strange phone calls, a malignant presence around her flat-build the whispering stream of disquiet into a wave that threatens to engulf her.
Dear Mermaid
Author: Alan DurantPublisher:
ISBN: 9781406359879
Category : Letters
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Join Holly as she learns about a magical undersea world in this picture book containing a real gift.
Mermaid Things to Make and Do
Author: Leonie PrattPublisher:
ISBN: 9780794534226
Category : Creative activities and seat work
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
"Dive into the enchanting underwater world of mermaids in this delightful activity book. By following the simple steps, you can create lots of magical mermaid accessories such as a pretty shell purse, a coral necklace, a twinkly tiara and a glittery mirror. You'll also discover how to make a tissue paper coral garden, a dangly octopus mobile, mermaids with sparkly tails and lots more. " --P. [4] of cover.
The Mermaid's Shoes
Author: Sanne te LooPublisher:
ISBN: 9781935954354
Category : Dreams
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A little girl follows her dream of becoming a mermaid after finding "mermaid shoe" scuba flippers on the beach, a pursuit that has her searching for the sea at the local aquarium, at a river in town, and elsewhere.
The Mermaid's Purse
Author: Fleur AdcockPublisher:
ISBN: 9781780375700
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Fleur Adcock wrote these poems during the four years before the COVID-19 pandemic put a stop to them. The two chief settings are New Zealand, with its multi-coloured seas, and Britain, seen in various decades. There are foreign travels, flirtations, family memories, deaths and conversations with the dead. Katherine Mansfield, incognito, dodges an academic conference; there's a lesson in water divining as well as a rather unusual Christmas party. We meet several varieties of small mammal, numerous birds, doomed or otherwise, and some sheep. The book ends with a sequence in memory of her friend, the poet Roy Fisher.
The Mermaid's Purse
Author: Patricia PolaccoPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 069817416X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Based on the life of beloved author-illustrator Patricia Polacco’s own amazing grandmother, this wonderful celebration of reading and community is as exhilarating as it is heartwarming. Young Stella loves books so much, her books begin to take over the farmhouse. “Why, Stell, you need your own library to hold those books,” her pa tells her, so he and the neighbors build her one! She calls it “the Mermaid’s Purse,” since the midwife said Stella was born in one. Stella opens the Purse to her neighbors and travels around the countryside, sharing her books door-to-door. Not everyone gives them a chance at first, like grouchy Pig Ears Lonsberry. But farmer Dunkle sure changes his mind when information in a book saves his sick sheep. Eventually, everybody comes to love the Mermaid’s Purse—so when a tornado destroys it, scattering Stella’s precious books far and wide, the whole community rallies to help.
The Mermaid's Purse
Author: Barbara CooperPublisher:
ISBN: 9780977478002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description