by Julia Donaldson · Macmillan Children's Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781447210856
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«The Singing Mermaid» is the picture book by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, published by Macmillan Children's Books in hardcover (32 pages, in English).
The story, told in verse, follows a mermaid with a prodigious voice who lives in Silversands. Tempted by fame and fortune, she joins Sam Sly's circus: the public adores her, but she is locked in a fish tank while the owner keeps the money. Longing for the sea, a seagull and an acrobat devise a plan for the mermaid to return home.
Edition with glitter on every page, published by Macmillan Children's Books on March 28, 2013.
For early readers aged 3 to 7 and for those seeking stories in English with mermaids and verse.
Dame Julia Catherine Donaldson is a British writer and playwright, and the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate. She is best known for her popular rhyming stories for children, especially those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which include The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, Stick Man, and Superworm. She originally wrote songs for children's television but has concentrated on writing books since the words of one of her songs, "A Squash and a Squeeze", were made into a children's book in 1993. Of her 184 published works, 64 are widely available in bookshops. The remaining 120 are intended for school use and include her Songbirds phonic reading scheme, which is part of the Oxford University Press's Oxford Reading Tree. In January 2025, Donaldson became Britain's best-selling author, surpassing J.K. Rowling by some 600,000 sales.
