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A review by booksnorkel
The Mermaid's Three Wisdoms by Jane Yolen, Laura Rader
4.0
What a wonderful tale. A mermaid child is fun and silly she likes to jump through the waves but one day she is seen, and banished.
A young girl who is hearing impaired feels like she isn't part of the hearing community or the deaf community and is ashamed to have to use sign language. One day while rowing out to her friend who is a hermit who lives near a lighthouse she sees a mermaid.
When she is washed on shore she has no idea how to walk and she can't speak. Her gills are gone and now there is this girl trying to communicate with her using sounds, under the water all they use are signs. Will the girl who has problems hearing learn to accept who she is, and help the mermaid get back home?
For anyone though 5th grade and under will appreciate it the most, or anyone learning sign, or any child who is different. Sweet and wonderful this book is worth finding.
A young girl who is hearing impaired feels like she isn't part of the hearing community or the deaf community and is ashamed to have to use sign language. One day while rowing out to her friend who is a hermit who lives near a lighthouse she sees a mermaid.
When she is washed on shore she has no idea how to walk and she can't speak. Her gills are gone and now there is this girl trying to communicate with her using sounds, under the water all they use are signs. Will the girl who has problems hearing learn to accept who she is, and help the mermaid get back home?
For anyone though 5th grade and under will appreciate it the most, or anyone learning sign, or any child who is different. Sweet and wonderful this book is worth finding.