The FurFins and the Mermaid Wedding

by Alison Ritchie, Aless Baylis (Illustrator)

Overview

In the enchanting underwater kingdom of Coralia, home to mermaid-animals called FurFins, the princess is getting married—and CherryTail is baking the Royal Wedding Cake!

Deep beneath the silvery waves, in a kaleidoscope of colorful coral, lies the magical kingdom of Coralia. This is where the mermaid-kitten FurFins live and play. Today is a VERY special day . . . the mermaid princess is getting married!

CherryTail, the best baker in all of Coralia, is making the Royal Wedding Cake. Everything is ready, but then disaster strikes—the cake has DISAPPEARED! Luckily, her best friends StarTail and TinyTail are ready to help. Can they save the day in time for the mermaid wedding?

With delightful color illustrations, this underwater adventure comes to life with evergreen themes of friendship and teamwork.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781547605972
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	04/13/2021
Series:	FurFins
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	10.20(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Alison Ritchie works as a freelance editor and writer and has published several children's books, including The FurFins and the Mermaid Wedding. She lives in an Oxfordshire village in the United Kingdom.

Aless Baylis is an illustrator and print & pattern designer based in Brighton. She has collaborated with companies worldwide to create books, clothing, and home decor for children. She lives in the United Kingdom.

@alessbaylis

Editorial Reviews

2021-02-09
A special wedding cake goes missing before the ceremony! It’s up to a troupe of mer-animals to save the day.

Princess Coral of Coralia is getting married today, and the seas are all aflutter. Mer-kitty CherryTail has put the finishing touches on the wedding cake only to discover that it has vanished mere moments later. Devastated, she and her friends StarTail and TinyTail (a mer-bear and mer-bunny, respectively) set out to discover the thief. Soon the sobs of mer-panda WishTail lead them to the miserable culprit. In all the excitement, WishTail’s birthday has been forgotten. Fortunately there’s nothing like a wedding (and a hastily thrown-together second cake) to make all the difference. Not content to merely satiate appetites for mermaids alone, this title is a veritable Frankenstein’s monster, with wedding/cute animal/birthday/mystery/princess elements all rolled into one! And like the glitter on the cover, the result is just too much. Thin writing drapes itself about the flimsiest of plots, preferring to allow the simple, cotton-candy–hued art to provide the bulk of the charm. The only merfolk with human characteristics, the princess and the unnamed groom, present as White.

Disparate elements mix in a desperate (and doomed) bid to charm. Swim on by. (Picture book. 2-6)

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