Mermaids In The Moonlight
- Publisher : Westland
- Publishing year : February 2021
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9789389152562
- Imprint : Red Panda
- Age Group : Early Reader
- Language : English
‘I wonder how many mermaids there must be to make all these different noises in the lagoon. They say that, over ...
‘I wonder how many mermaids there must be to make all these different noises in the lagoon. They say that, over a hundred years ago, the sounds used to be so loud that you needn’t even enter the lagoon … You could simply walk along the banks or on a bridge to hear them.’
Nilavoli and Amma voyage down a lagoon in Mattakalappu, listening to the mysterious sounds that rise from the deep.
As little Nilavoli listens in wonder, Amma dives into folklore and fishes out spellbinding tales of mermaids from around the world. From the royal mermaid Mélusine of Luxembourg to Julnar the sea-born from West Asia, from the shapeshifting Menana of the Ottawa Nation to the mermaid princess Suvarnamaccha, a daughter of Ravana who fell in love with Hanuman, the stories are all touched with magic.
Like a mermaid’s song, this beautifully illustrated picture book by acclaimed author and poet Sharanya Manivannan will enchant every young reader.
Sharanya Manivannan's first book of poetry, Witchcraft, was described in The Straits Times as 'sensuous and spiritual, delicate and dangerous and as full as the moon reflected in a knife'. She was specially commissioned to write and perform a poem at the 2015 Commonwealth Day Observance in London. The High Priestess Never Marries is her first work of fiction.
