Annie Lumsden, the Girl from the Sea (精裝本)

A magical story about finding your identity from one of the most acclaimed storytellers of his generation, richly illustrated in full colour by an internationally renowned artist.

My mother says that all things can be turned to tales. I thought she meant tales like fish tails, but I was wrong. She meant tales like this, tales that are stories. But this tale of mine is very like a fish tail too...

Annie has never been like the other girls. Her mam tried sending her to school when she was small, but Annie couldn’t seem to make words or numbers stick. She prefers instead to be swimming in the sea, or sunbathing on the shore at Stupor Beach, her head full of tales. She should have been a fish, her mam always tells her, and Annie knows the truth of it. Then a stranger who comes to town is struck by the beauty and the wonder of her, and Annie Lumsden realizes that perhaps she really is half a creature from the sea.

David Almond is the acclaimed author of many novels for children, including Skellig, Kit's Wilderness, The Color of the Sun, and War Is Over, and he has collaborated with many artists on fiction for younger readers. His books sell all over the world, and he was the 2010 winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award. David Almond lives in England.

Beatrice Alemagna is the award-winning author and illustrator of several books, including Harold Snipperpot's Best Disaster Ever, Un grand jour de rien, Lotta combinaguai sa fare tutto by Astrid Lindgren, and Picasso & Lump by Nancy Lim. She is a six-time nominee for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and has exhibited her art around the world. Beatrice Alemagna lives in Paris.