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The book launching is on Saturday, Ma2PM at Fully Booked Bonifacio High Street. What else could you expect from the award winning author of Tall Story (Anvil, 2012) but a tale of contradictions and opportunities to think and ask questions. There are many layers to this playfully illustrated picture book that could lead to conversations about facts on sea creatures and marine animals, choices and self knowledge. What harm can a sea cow, who thinks it is a mermaid, do to them? As gentle and tolerant as the dugong, they empathised and understood. The children learned to accept this and allowed it to be. On the surface, the dugong sounds and looks silly but there is unwavering conviction each time it articulates its chosen identity. The book is both humorous and thought provoking. Together they go on an adventure with the dugong consistently keeping its claim, I am a mermaid! It is about a dugong (sea cow) claiming itself as a mermaid to the chagrin of two kids who met this gentle sea creature by the shore. Librarians have power to change the world, one reader at a time – and I am here to work.Sirena Ba 'Yan? (Is That A Mermaid?) is Candy Gourlay's new picture book. I believe that books and libraries are critical tools for helping to create the next generation of citizens and leaders that will shape our future. My name is Sarah FitzHenry, but my friends call me Ms. Not for Brian’s lack of trying.) #bookreview #brianthecat #nomĪ post shared by Ms.

(No library books were harmed in the taking of this photo. More thoughtful than action-packed, Tall Story will make a good fit for the right middle grade reader. This unique story has a lot to draw readers in themes like feeling like an outsider, sports, medical mystery, religion and folklore, immigration, family, sibling relationships, and assimilating to a new culture. Just as Andi and Bernardo are forced together, so are their plotlines, but the story eventually smoothes itself out.

Written in two very different voices (half from Andi’s POV and half from Bernardo’s), Tall Story felt a little bit disjointed. Andi and Bernardo’s seemingly unrelated stories are connected through the bonds of family, hope, and the American dream. And it has a double dose of that outsider feeling – American Andi loves basketball but can’t play on her school’s team because she’s a girl Bernardo has somehow grown to be a baffling 8 FEET TALL, which brings him all kinds of unwanted attention in his small village in the Phillipines. Tall Story was suggested to me in a librarian thread about stories centered around characters that feel like they just don’t fit in.

Summary of tall story by candy gourlay