Sweetpea Magee: Mermaid Expert - Rhian Wright
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Sweetpea Magee is, by her own confident assessment, the world's ULTIMATE mermaid expert. And she has a notebook to prove it.
Come along as she opens up her confidential files and introduces you to every kind of mermaid there is — the fierce ones who live in rivers, the ones who synchronise-swim in formation, the ones nobody has ever managed to photograph. There's one she's never found though. The cave mermaid. And Sweetpea is going to find her, even if it means getting past an ogre, a dragon, a goblin and a witch on the way.
We love it because: this is a book about a child who is absolutely, unshakeably certain she knows everything — and it never once makes fun of her for it. Rhian Wright's illustrations are all sherbet pool tiles and splashy aqua water, with mermaids in every colour hair you can think of, and the last page does something quietly lovely with where the magic actually turns out to live. If you have a small person currently in the everything-must-be-mermaid phase, this is the one.
- Written and illustrated by Rhian Wright
- Paperback, 32 pages
- Ages 3-5 (and plenty of 6-year-olds too)
- Published by words & pictures
- ISBN 9781836009498