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The Singing Mermaid
- Narrator
- Lauren Laverne
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 31 October 2019
- Run Time
- 14 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Picture storybooks, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Mermaids / mermen / merfolk, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Freshwater and marine mammals, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Stories in verse
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What to expect
Read by Lauren Laverne.
Dive into the adventure and meet a clever mermaid in this exciting rhyming adventure from the brilliant Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, creators of What the Ladybird Heard.
With funny rhyming verse, The Singing Mermaid is loved by children and parents alike – perfect for listening to at home, in the car, at bedtime – or any time at all!
Hoping for fame and fortune, the Singing Mermaid joins Sam Sly’s circus. But she soon misses freedom and the ocean. Can friends like Annie the Acrobat help the mermaid escape and find her way home?
Enjoy more stories from Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, the bestselling team behind the What the Ladybird Heard adventures: Sharing a Shell, The Princess and the Wizard and Sugarlump and the Unicorn.
Critics Review
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[A] tip-top adventurous ballad which will hold its readers captive.
Guardian
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A delightful rhyming adventure.
Daily Mail
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Details
- Author
- Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Lydia Monks
- Narrator
- Lauren Laverne
- Duration
- 14 minutes
- Release Date
- 31 October 2019
- ISBN
- 9781529044317
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Picture storybooks, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Mermaids / mermen / merfolk, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Freshwater and marine mammals, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Stories in verse
Synopsis
Read by Lauren Laverne.Dive into the adventure and meet a clever mermaid in this exciting rhyming adventure from the brilliant Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, creators of What the Ladybird Heard.With funny rhyming verse, The Singing Mermaid is loved by children and parents alike – perfect for listening to at home, in the car, at bedtime – or any time at all! Hoping for fame and fortune, the Singing Mermaid joins Sam Sly’s circus. But she soon misses freedom and the ocean. Can friends like Annie the Acrobat help the mermaid escape and find her way home? Enjoy more stories from Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, the bestselling team behind the What the Ladybird Heard adventures: Sharing a Shell, The Princess and the Wizard and Sugarlump and the Unicorn.
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