Imagine You're a Mermaid (Imagine This!) [Paperback]

Meg Clibbon (Author), Lucy Clibbon (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up | Series: Imagine This!

A merrily alluring guide to the realm of mermaids.

If you've ever heard the call to be such a creature, Imagine You're a Mermaid! is the guide for you! Awash with information on all things mermaid, this book offers tips on what to wear (seashell tiaras and seaweed hair extensions), where to live (in coral castles with turrets of pearl), and what to do (look beautiful and maybe make some mischief).

Dripping with mermaid tales, sea scenes, and even some treats to try (mer-ingues, anyone?), and saturated with stunning artwork (including watercolors, of course Imagine You're a Mermaid! is guaranteed to drown your boredom.

Key Features:

• Fun to read, look at, and do activities
• Eye-catching illustrations complement delightfully silly descriptions

(20031031)

Editorial Reviews

Review

Brims with fanciful information about the habits, fashion and lore surrounding these fishy beauties. (Publishers Weekly 20031117)

Filled with playful puns and fishy humor... illustrations are whimsical and childlike. (Be Astengo School Library Journal )

Illustrated with child-like paintings [the book] encourages children to use their imagination and become the creatures of the book. Recommended. (Denise Weir Canadian Materials )

About the Author

Mer Meg (Meg Clibbon) is not a mermaid, but she is a sea friend. Sea friends know all about where mermaids live and play, and try to help them if they can. In researching the other books in the Imagine This! series, Meg has also befriended Fairies, Pirates, and Wizards.

Lorelei Lucy (Lucy Clibbon) lives in a magical land far, far away, surrounded by soft candy beaches, clear blue waters, and exotic sea creatures. Her wonderful adventures in such places have inspired all the pictures in the Imagine This! series.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 6 and up
  
• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Annick Press (September 6, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1550377906
• ISBN-13: 978-1550377903
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 9.1 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,682,136 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Imagine This Book Sinking to the Seabed, May 28, 2010

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Amy Steele "quirky mama" (Western NC, Land of the Mullets With Tails) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Imagine You're a Mermaid (Imagine This!) (Paperback)

The previous reviewer is absolutely correct. I quietly sent this book to Davy Jones's locker.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Offensive, March 23, 2009

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This review is from: Imagine You're a Mermaid (Imagine This!) (Paperback)

My daughter brought this home from her school library. Imagine my disgust at a line in this book that asserts a mermaid's life, which seems boiled down to nothing more than being beautiful and shopping for accessories, is "better than being useful." From start to finish, this book undermined the core values we attempt to teach our daughter: that consumerism does not equal happiness, that true beauty can't be achieved through accessories and that it is quite important to be useful. Yes, she is quite beautiful, but she is worth so much more than that. How about a book extolling the virtues of a scientist's life? Imagine the possibilities when we look beyond the stereotypes.