Book Type: Graphic-Novel-Style Children's Book Author: Gary Jeffrey Pages: 24 Summary: A book on the legend of mermaids, and one graphic novel folktale. My Review:
When I first picked this up from the library, I was really excited, since I have never read a graphic novel before, especially one about mermaids! Sadly though, I was very disappointing. Although the contents list "The Mermaids Comb" and "Other Mermaid Tales" the book only has one mermaid tale (The Mermaids Comb). The "Other Mermaids Tale" section is about half a page of other folktales that were cut down into summaries! The first part of the book briefly, and I mean very briefly, goes over the mermaid legend, but the information can easily be found in other mermaid books.
As for the actual story, the illustrations were interesting, but I found the mermaids tail be rather fat, and less sinuous and graceful. I think this book had a lot of potential, and could have been really cool if the author did more than one story in a graphic novel form. I give this book (**-***) between 2 and 3 stars. -Sirenita The Selkie