Fairy Mermaids Book Review!

The perfect summer reading adventure! 🧜‍♀️🧚‍♀️🐬💦

"Fairy Mermaids: The Bottlenose Bind" by Shannon & Ryan Mills 

📚Book Description: The once pristine ocean is in trouble! Join Coral and Sandy, the adventurous fairy mermaids, on a thrilling mission to clean up plastic polluting their beloved reef. Before long they encounter a distressed bottlenose dolphin, Echo, who is entangled in a discarded net. With courage and determination, they embark on a mission to help Echo and team up with the grumpy but powerful stone crab, Clamps. Packed with exciting underwater adventure and ocean facts. Plus, see the sun transform your favorite fairy mermaids 

📚My Review: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

This is an absolutely enchanting adventure with fairy mermaids, Sandy and Coral! They set out on the beach one day to pick up trash to help save the ocean, but suddenly, they realize their dolphin friend, Echo, is trapped in a fishing net! Sandy and Coral must think fast how to set him free, with help from an unlikely neighbor. This wonderful tale teaches children important life lessons, such as the importance of kindness, hard work, persistence, taking care of the environment, and how sometimes even the smallest or unlikiest of creatures can still make a big difference, especially when working as part of a team. The illustrations are bright and mesmerizing, and I'm sure children will adore them. This book drew me right in from the beginning and had me hooked until the very last page. It's also the perfect book for a classroom because it teaches children important facts about sea life and how to help the environment. Highly recommend!

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YA Book Recommendation! 📚

 

Ambitious author Tom Durwood is looking for new readers for his challenging, award-winning adventures! 📚

 

Tom Durwood draws on his background as an educator in literature to both educate and entertain readers in his newest historical fiction, The Illustrated Boatman's Daughter. Deftly presenting important literary themes like imperialism through the lens of a strong female protagonist, Durwood provides a dose of history for lovers of mystery and thrillers. The Illustrated Boatman's Daughter is an old-fashioned epic adventure story complete with swashbuckling fights, treachery and assassins. Readers will find revenge and heartbreak, anguish and love, secret identities, brave deeds in the face of overwhelming odds—and a new perspective on one of history's great tales.

In “The Illustrated Boatman’s Daughter,” he gives us Salima, a young woman of the Nile, who in this scene must defend against arms merchants ….  

 

 “We are too full to take these now,” said Salima to the next in line, a burly young Afar tribesman, who escorted a stack of long wooden boxes. Two companions stood beside them. “Come earlier next time.” 

“What do you mean, ‘too full’?” he demanded.

“I am not speaking in code, friend,” said Salima. “Take them to the bargeman, Chavi, across the way. He can ferry you. We don’t take guns.” 

She nodded towards the stacked boxes with the French markings. 

“We have heard that your rival transports are all inferior to yours.”

She motioned for the next in line. “Those Martini Henrys are good rifles,” she said. “But you may find yourself stuck loading the breech. The American rifles don’t stop firing.” She raised one eyebrow. 

“I can make a separate arrangement,” said the Afar. “Is there a male I could see, daughter? Your uncle? Your father, perhaps?”

“Step out, friend. Come back another day. With another cargo.” 

Fury flushed the tribesman’s features. His shoulders tensed and he reached for his waistband..

She did the same, half-standing–   

The dog growled and started. 

The Tunisian stepped between the two. 

“A thousand pardons.” The Afar bowed and laughed nervously. “It’s a friendly dispute.” He stepped out of line and retreated, with his boxes and his grumbling companions.  

 

📚Read free excerpts from Tom’s adventure story here!:

 

https://boatmansdaughter.com/

 

Foreword by Fatima Sharrafedine. 

 

"Heroes coming of age... and changing history."

 

“A series of historical novels like this is refreshing, and much-needed …”

~Lauren E. Snyder / Bookseller, Malaprop Books