Product Description

Emily Windsnap is thrilled to arrive at her new home, a secret island near the Bermuda Triangle where humans and merfolk live together, and where being a girl who grows a tail as soon as she enters the water isn't a problem. Being Emily, she can't resist exploring forbidden places - as a result, she inadvertently wakes the kraken, the legendary deep sea monster that has been asleep for two hundred years. What follows makes a terrifically exciting adventure - not just for Emily, but for her old adversary Mandy Rushton, whose parents have taken her on a cruise, and whose father thinks he can make his fortune if he catches a mermaid. Their voices alternate as the kraken's terrifying tentacles rise from the deep. Mermaid magic, a fabulous monster, and wonderful descriptions of undersea life make this a rich fantasy that is a real page-turner and has all the charm and warmth of Liz Kessler's first book, THE TAIL OF EMILY WINDSNAP.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35682 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

tBkmag, Summer 2005
"...funny, adventurous..."

Review
"...funny, adventurous..." (tBkmag, Summer 2005 )

From the Inside Flap
Emily Windsnap's new home is perfect: a secret island set in a glittering blue sea, where humans and merfolk live together, and where it's OK to be a girl who grows a mermaid's tail when she enters the water. Everything changes when Emily accidentally wakes the kraken, the legendary sea monster, from its hundred-year sleep. As it rises from the deep, threatening the ships that pass through the Bermuda Trinagle and putting the future of the islanders at risk, Emily is desperate to save them. But then an old enemy turns up . . . This is a rollercoaster adventure story, with funny, engaging characters and plenty of mermaid magic. Liz Kessler's new book is as enchanting as her first, The Tail of Emily Windsnap. Liz Kessler lives on a narrowboat in rural Cheshire. She has worked as a teacher and journalist, has an MA in Creative Writing, and is an editorial consultant, offering advice to other children's writers.

Customer Reviews

Time to get Kraken
The second book in Liz Kessler's Emily Windsnap series starts with the Windsnap family happily relocated to Allpoints Island, with its soft white sand beaches, crystal clear water, palm trees - in short an island paradise.

If you're thinking that this all sounds pretty great, you should know that Allpoints Island is located right in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle, and that there are some parts off limits to little half-mermaids for good reason.

As Alfred, Lord Tennyson once said:

"Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth ..."

(Shamelessly quoted by me, not from the original source, "The Kraken" as you would believe, but from the flyleaf of this very book)

Being a girl of insatiable curiosity, Emily decides to explore her new territory, and before you can say "Ooops! She did it again", her exploits get her into enough hot water to really make a Kraken get steamed. Soon she's facing a three part nightmare, involving the aforementioned cranky beastie, a stubborn and bossy trident-wielding Neptune, and a blast from the past whom she thought she was rid of at last.

Better than the first, this one is to be read in one sitting, because you won't want to put it down.


Amanda Richards