Secret History of Mermaids and Creatures of the Deep - Book

This lavishly illustrated resource offers insight into the lives, origins, language, and magic of the elusive merfolk. Includes flaps, booklets, gatefolds, and a tassel with foil, embossing, and glittery jewels on the cover. Full color.

The Secret History of Mermaids and Creatures of the Deep was published by Candlewick Press in 2009 and is credited to Professor Ari Berk. Berk is an American writer, folklorist, artist and scholar of literature, iconography and comparative myth, and his expertise shows in this richly imagined book of mermaid lore and other sea creatures.

Written as a fairy-tale history of the merfolk, it is packed with movable features that make every page a discovery. A wonderful gift for young readers who love mermaids, myths and the mysteries of the ocean. This is a 68-page hardcover.