Emily Windsnap's Fin-tastic Friendship Book

Like many good pals, Emily (half girl, half mermaid) and Shona (all mermaid, all the time) share similarities and differences that make their friendship special. Now, with this interactive journal, readers can explore their own friendships with an ocean of Emily Windsnap-inspired activities, including:
. personality and style quizzes
. lists of favorites and "very important facts"
. ideas for making friendship tokens, mobiles, and treasure boxes
. handwriting revelations
. complete plans for an amazing "underwater" sleepover
. tantalizing glimpses of mermaid lore
. and much more!

Be a best friend the Emily Windsnap way! This fanciful friendship book is bubbling with fun activities — perfect for fans of the series to share with their BFFs.

Like many good pals, Emily (half girl, half mermaid) and Shona (all mermaid, all the time) share similarities and differences that make their friendship special. Now, with this interactive journal, readers can explore their own friendships with an ocean of Emily Windsnap-inspired activities, including:
. personality and style quizzes
. lists of favorites and "very important facts"
. ideas for making friendship tokens, mobiles, and treasure boxes
. handwriting revelations
. complete plans for an amazing "underwater" sleepover
. tantalizing glimpses of mermaid lore
. and much more!

Children's Literature

Based on the English series about the mermaid Emily Windsnap and her best friend, Shona Silkfin, this activity book is a paean to friendship and to marketing. Part I, "Best Friends," briefly introduces Emily and Shona. The rest of the book consists of one- to two-page activities, which include excerpts from the three Emily Windsnap books, for the reader and her best friend to do together. The first asks the girls (it is impossible to imagine a boy touching this book) to fill out blanks with VIFs (Very Important Facts) about themselves. Others consist of, for instance, personality profiles, handwriting analysis, jewelry-making, hair-dos, sand castle building, and mermaid costumes for a goth, a glitter girl or a happy hippie. The book concludes with a few facts about sea creatures, very brief quotations from sea stories, and twenty-five pages of blank ruled paper for the best friends to write about each other. Best friends will be cozily, if tritely, occupied and will demand purchase of the series. Reviewer: Cynthia Levinson

Liz Kessler's first book, The Tail of Emily Windsnap, was published in ten countries. Of Emily Windsnap and Monster from the Deep, she says, "I always knew that Emily's story wasn't finished at the end of the first book. I really wanted to explore the idea of an island where humans and merfolk lived together in peace. I also knew that there was a detail I was missing.