The Mermaid's Tail

The Mermaids Tail

Crystal wants to be a mermaid.   She tries everything she can think of doing, to be a mermaid. She swung her legs under the table.  Then she walked in tiny steps when she got down from the table.  Whenever Crystal goes to bed she says I wish I was a mermaid.   One night her mum made her a mermaid's tail.  Crystal wore it everywhere.  She wore it shopping, she wore it to the beach, she wore it in the bath and she went to school with it on.  She went everywhere with it on.  Crystal really wanted to wear it to bed but it always seemed to be wet.  One night Crystal didn't have time to have a bath,  so she went to bed and her mermaid's tail wasn't wet.   She thought her parents wouldn't mind if she wore it to bed so she did.    Crystal woke up hearing a eeeee sound.  She found out it was a dolphin tapping on her window.  Finally she said, "I'm a mermaid."  She swam outside and played with the dolphins and swam around playing with all the fish.   And then she realised that if she stayed a mermaid forever she would miss her parents too much.  So she swam up up up and then she found herself in her bed.  She woke up and walked into the kitchen and her parents said, " where is your mermaid's tail?"

"Oh," said Crystal, "I want to be a bumble bee."

I think this book was really good. I give it an eight out of ten.

This book was made by Raewyn Caisley and illustrated my Ann James