Shark Girl

by Kate Beaton, Kate Beaton (Illustrator)

Overview

A laugh-out-loud picture book with a feel-good message from bestselling comics creator Kate Beaton about a half-human-half-shark bent on revenge after a greedy fishing captain messes with her waters – perfect for fans of We Don’t Eat Our Classmates and The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors.

When Shark Girl is captured by an evil fishing captain's net, she makes a vow... for REVENGE!

With the sea witch's help, Shark Girl becomes a human sailor and launches a plan... for MUTINY!

But Shark Girl needs the help of her crew mates before she can enact her plan. Will Shark girl SINK... or SWIM?

Bestselling creator Kate Beaton has created a subversive and hilarious spin on the classic little mermaid fairytale that will inspire little readers to seek their own revenge on behalf of justice!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250184924
Publisher:	Roaring Brook Press
Publication date:	02/25/2025
Pages:	48
Sales rank:	749,567
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Kate Beaton is a cartoonist from Mabou, Unama’ki-Cape Breton. She is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Ducks: Two Years in the Oilsands, Hark! A Vagrant, Step Aside, Pops, and the picture books The Princess and the Pony and King Baby. She served as executive producer for Pinecone & Pony, an animated series for AppleTV+. Kate's work has won multiple Eisner, Doug Wright, Harvey and Ignatz awards in the field of comics. Ducks recently won Canada Reads 2023, and was chosen as one of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2022, and landed on best of the year lists from Time, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and the New York Times, among others.