Rónán and the mermaid :
a tale of old Ireland /
Marianne McShane ; illustrated by Jordi Solano.
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Summary: | An Irish storyteller revisits the little-known legend of the Mermaid Saint in a haunting, beautifully illustrated tale of kindness, music, and longing. Long ago, on the eastern coast of Ireland, a monk from the Abbey of Bangor was collecting driftwood along the wave-tossed shore when he found a boy washed up amid a circle of seals. At first the boy, wrapped in a shawl of woven seagrass, could barely move or speak. But when he regained his strength, he recalled being brought ashore by a lady with long golden hair who sang him to safety and gave him a silver ring. The monks knew the legend of a mermaid who had wandered the coast for three hundred years. Could it possibly have been her? |
Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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London :
Walker Books and Subsidiaries,
2020.
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Notes: | Physical description: 32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (colour) ; 29 cm |
ISBN: | 9781406392043 1406392049 |