SummaryĮmily Windsnap lives aboard a boat with her mother. The series follows the adventures of thirteen-year-old Emily Windsnap after she discovers that she is half mermaid in the first book and is targeted towards middle grade readers. The series originated as a poem that Kessler was writing about a 'little girl who lived on a boat but had a big secret' an editor recommended that Kessler turn the poem into a book.

It is illustrated primarily by Sarah Gibb and published by Orion Children's Books in Britain, and Candlewick Press in America. Orion Children's Books Candlewick Press (US)Įmily Windsnap is a series of children's fantasy novels written by British author Liz Kessler, inaugurated by The Tail of Emily Windsnap in 2003 and continuing as of 2020. Emily makes realizations that change everything.Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the DeepĮmily Windsnap and the Castle in the MistĮmily Windsnap and the Land of the Midnight SunĮmily Windsnap and the Ship of Lost SoulsĮmily Windsnap and the Falls of Forgotten Island Beeston claims that Jake was a bad man that ran away after Emily was born. Emily and Shona read documents that say Jake was a mermaid who went to jail for marrying a human, but Mr. Being half- mermaid isn't the only problem that Emily has. Especially when you have someone like Mandy Rushton right next door. Being half mermaid is very hard, because you have to worry about people finding out your secret. Shona is a full-time mermaid, unlike Emily. As she tells us about her adventures, she tells us how she meets another mermaid named Shona Silkfin. Once Emily discovers that she is a mermaid, she goes out to swim every night. She was a mermaid! Even though she lived on a boat, her mom was afraid of water- or so she thought.

what she thought was a bad cramp, was actually something very, very, different. Emily thought that she was an ordinary girl, until her first swimming lesson at Brightport Junior High.

The Tail of Emily Windsnap is about a girl who is half-mermaid-half-human, and wants to meet her dad.

Summary of the tail of emily winsnap