Emily Windsnap y la cola de sirena, de Liz Kessler, fue uno de mis libros preferidos de siempre cuando era más joven 🥹🧜🏻‍♀️🐚🌊

Es increíble cómo un libro de literatura infantil, como *Emily Windsnap y la cola de sirena* de Liz Kessler, puede transportarte de inmediato a la infancia.

Seamos honestos, este libro, *Emily Windsnap y la cola de sirena*, me ayudó a ser fuerte frente al acoso escolar, gracias a sus mundos mágicos.(primera 'reseña')Octava relectura:Sigue la misma fuerte sensación de calidez, paz y seguridad.Esto significa tanto para mí que no puedo ni describirlo.Me dio la fuerza para amarme a mí misma, para volver a sonreír, y me enseñó a ser valiente y a esperar siempre lo mejor.Y sí, sé que esta no es una reseña de libro convencional.Así que, voy a dejar algo po...

La idea de la trama es interesante —una chica de séptimo grado descubre que es una sirena cuando sus piernas se convierten en cola la primera vez que se sumerge en el agua para sus clases de natación—, pero la escritura en sí es floja (a menos que te gusten los libros con charlas manipuladoras de chicas del tipo 'no eres mi amiga si no haces esto'). El discurso que Emily le da a Neptuno, el dios del mar, al final, se supone que es una conmovedora defensa del amor y las familias, pero resultó se...

edit: I’m gonna keep this at the 4-star rating since that’s how I felt while reading when I was twelve, but I did research on this, and yes, there is a character in this series who, throughout, has a palm reading business, does hypnosis, and uses tarot cards. I was unaware of what those things were when I was little, so I can’t recommend this series to little girls because of that.______________✨All the stars!✨Emily Windsnap is amazing! I haven't read it in a while, but felt like rewriting my re...

One of my younger sisters and I discovered this book at the thrift store a few weeks ago, and the gorgeous cover and quirky title intrigued us both. I decided to give it a try. ;)Since my thoughts on this book are pretty 50/50, I’ll start with what I disliked so we can end on a positive note. ;)Things I Disliked1. This is a mermaid book, so Neptune (a.k.a. Poseidon) was inevitable. He was accurately unpredictable like all characters in mythology are, and it was flippantly mentioned that he had m...

Read this book to my 7 year old daughter. Had been really looking forward to reading it, & ordered it from the library, as there are follow up novels to this which we were hoping to enjoy too. I am giving this book allowances for the fact that it is a children's book, and as such is geared towards and written for a young, unsophisticated audience.It was bad, bad, bad. I was absolutely bored to tears with the dreary, thoroughly unlikeable, two dimensional characters, and the erratic and moron...

You know that book you read as child and randomly find at the library and think "can it possibly be as good as I remember?" Sometimes the answer is an unequivocal yes (see: anything by Beverly Clearly), other times a disheartening no (see: the Mandie series). Sometimes they're so bad you're a bit embarrassed to admit you read and loved them in the first place. The Tail of Emily Windsnap falls squarely in the latter category with the sad addition (in my case) of no residual adoration since I neve...

A fascinating book about a girl who discovers herself is a mermaid, and she explores the secrets of her life.

Very, very cute book about a girl who, at the age of twelve, has never been fully immersed in water. Although she lives on a house boat, her mother is deathly afraid of water so Emily's never been swimming. The boat is so small there's no room for a bathtub. When she finally takes swimming lessons in school, low and behold she discovers she's a mermaid. Well, sort of...she's got legs when she's out of water, and a tail when she's immersed in water.Emily is especially endearing because she's alwa...