SuitabookProtecting a home
Plans to turn Sleepy Cove into a luxury seaside golf resort threaten Atalanta’s home, prompting her to seek help from friends.
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Chris Riddell - Author
This is a richly illustrated mermaid adventure about protecting a home from development. Its diary format, playful language and underwater world may invite shared reading, visual exploration and discussion.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a richly illustrated mermaid adventure about protecting a home from development. Its diary format, playful language and underwater world may invite shared reading, visual exploration and discussion.
Plans to turn Sleepy Cove into a luxury seaside golf resort threaten Atalanta’s home, prompting her to seek help from friends.
Atalanta enlists old and new friends in an effort to stop the proposed transformation of their surroundings.
The book uses detailed black-and-white illustrations, puns, parodies, literary references and cultural jokes within a diary-style adventure.
Some illustrations reportedly include cleavage, ghosts, skull jewellery and characters whose parents are absent. These details may merit a quick preview if they could concern your child.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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