**A Waterstone's Best Book of the Year 2024*
**"An instant classic" - Lancashire Post**
**"Magical" - Inis**
**"Breathtakingly beautiful - Robert Tregoning**
Alina and her granny live in a lighthouse by the sea: a home filled with the warmth of Granny’s magical stories.
But Alina is worried. Granny’s memories and stories are starting to fade away, and she doesn’t know how to bring them back. Then one day, she meets a mermaid on the rocks near the lighthouse – and she’s swept into a magical deep-sea adventure that will change everything.
A modern classic from the bestselling creators of The Girl and the Dinosaur.
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Hollie Hughes is a talented new picture book author. Having three children of her own, she is perfectly tuned into the reading habits and tastes of young children. The Famishing Vanishing Mahoosive Mammoth is Hollie's debut picture book and there'll be lots more to come. Hollie lives in Essex with her family.
Leigh Hodgkinson is the talent behind picture
Ann Meek lives in Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire, where she works as a Learning Support Assistant at a primary school. I'M SPECIAL, I'M ME! won the Little Tiger Press New Author Prize 2003. Sarah Massini lives in East Sussex with her husband and son. This is her first picture book for Little Tiger Press.
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