Cricket Readers Recommend
The Tail of Emily Windsnap
by Liz KesslerThis is a great book with a girl who' s so afraid of water that she never took a bath ( just showers) and never went swimming--but she lives on a boat!!! So Emily begs her mom for swim lessons, and her mom gives in, but then something weird happens.
submitted by Amy C. , age 10
(July 1, 2008 - 9:11 am)
(July 1, 2008 - 9:11 am)
I LOVE this book!! Emily is amazing!
(July 20, 2008 - 4:14 pm)
5 chirps!
(July 27, 2008 - 4:16 pm)
Dear Amy C.,
I am now reading this book and I love it thanks to you! Thanks for a great book recomendation!
(August 3, 2008 - 10:29 am)
Sorry to say, I was not pleased with this book at all. At All.
(August 21, 2008 - 1:35 pm)
It's okay to state your opinion. I for one really, really, really enjoyed reading the book.
(December 27, 2009 - 3:46 pm)
I especially like this book because it is not only about mermaids, but the main character has my name.
(September 17, 2008 - 2:22 pm)
I loved that she was a mermaid.
(April 5, 2009 - 6:15 pm)
I read all these books and I thought they were pretty good, although not my favorite.
(April 16, 2009 - 9:28 pm)
They're not my fave, but they're really good. My fave books are the Dragonspell series.
(December 27, 2009 - 3:48 pm)
Frances, why didn't you like them? I don't mean your opinion is wrong, I'm just curious to hear your reasons.
(April 22, 2009 - 9:59 am)
The entire series was really unenjoyable and pretty lame. I mean, Emily was sort of wimpy, and the "villains" were hardly passable.
Now, don't take me too seriously, because I think that these books would be good for a younger reader. I'm 11.25, and was eleven when I read them, and they came off as sort of babyish, but that could just be that they were intended for a younger audience. If I'm wrong, and older kids also enjoyed them, I'm just overly cynical.
But they were bland.
(May 3, 2009 - 6:27 pm)
Why did you post as Frances and then as Mary W.? And wasn't it Mary Elizabeth Josephine... or something like that?
(May 6, 2009 - 1:34 pm)
Huh? Far as I know, there are two Marys on Chatterbox: Mary Jo, whose real name is Frances, and myself, and my real name is Mary Elizabeth, but I post as Mary W., but I prefer to be called Mary Liz. Mary Jo goes by Mary Jo, not Frances.
Does that answer your question, or increase your befuddlement?
(May 6, 2009 - 5:02 pm)
I read it again, and I didn't like it as much. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't very good either.
(June 30, 2009 - 4:40 pm)
That settles it. I'm selling my Emily Windsnap books. They're so boring! If anyone is looking for a good Mer series, read the Ingo books by Helen Dunmore.
(July 24, 2009 - 11:56 am)