Children's & young adult fiction & true stories

Looking for the Mermaid

by Yang Hongying

Description

Have you ever heard of a fish named remora, with an oval-shaped sucker on its head? At the very beginning of this book, Boca the remora was caught by fishermen who took advantage its sucker to capture bigger fish. Later, with the help of Frogboy, a 12-year-old boy who was good at diving, Boca restored freedom and agreed to travel around with Frogboy, introducing the underwater world to him. Along their journey, they made lots of friends, learned more about those renowned names, such as sea cucumber and shark, and got themselves familiar with those weird ones, such as lantern fish and sparkler fish. They even had a narrow escape from many dangerous situations. Does mermaid really exist? How Frogboy wielded his wisdom to fight against poachers? Want to know the answers? Join Frogboy and off your underwater adventure.

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Author Biography

Yang Hongying, famous children’s literature writer, vice president of Writers Association of Sichuan Province, winner of National Children’s Literature Prize, nominee for Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2014. Some of her works are translated in to many languages, including English, French, Germany, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese, published worldwide.

China Translation & Publishing House

China Translation & Publishing House

China Translation & Publishing House Co. Ltd. (CTPH) is the publishing sector of the former China Translation & Publishing Corporation (CTPC), which was established as a state-level translation and publishing institution in 1973. CTPH has gradually matured from a small unit  publishing UN materials to a publishing house translating and publishing  famous works from all over the world, and evolved from  linguistic and translated works to a comprehensive catalogue of  titles, including audiovisual, digital and multimedia publications. CTPH publsihs 500 new titles annually

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher China Translation & Publishing House
  • Publication Date 2019
  • ISBN/Identifier 9787500157373
  • FormatPaperback
  • Primary Price 79.80
  • Pages448
  • ReadershipChildren
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language Title寻找美人鱼
  • Original Language Authors杨红樱
  • Dimensions145*210 mm
  • SeriesGreat Stories for Children

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