EMERALD and the Magic Shell by Harriet Muncaster
Paperback published by Oxford University Press 6th March 2025
ISBN 9780192748056
Emerald is special because she is different Emerald is thrilled to be going on a family camping holiday. It will be her first trip away as a mermaid princess! But she soon realises her stepdad isn’t really getting into the camping spirit. He keeps using his magic shell to make everything fancier. And that’s cheating, isn’t it? Then again, maybe a little bit of magic can’t hurt.
MY REVIEW
Isadora Moon, half vampire half fairy, and Emerald the mermaid books are my favourite books. Emerald is a mermaid, she lives under the sea, with her Mum and her stepdad King Auster, along with her stepsister. They are all going on a camping trip. With King Auster, used to living in luxury, he is taking his magic shell necklace with him, just in case he needs it. Emerald isn’t happy about this as they haven’t used any magic on camping trips before. That is until Emerald needs some magic herself, she takes the magic conch shell, in the middle of the night. The story Emerald and the Magic Shell, will be loved by all children around the world. I do recommend the whole series of Isadora Moon, and Emerald series.
About author Harriet Muncaster
Harriet Muncaster is the author and illustrator of the internationally bestselling Isadora Moon, Mirabelle and Emerald series of young reader books and the middle-grade Victoria Stitch series, both published by Oxford University Press. So far Isadora Moon is available in thirty-seven different languages, including Spanish, Italian, Romanian and Korean, and is available as audio books. The Isadora Moon series won the El Corte Inglés Children’s Book of the Year in 2019 and has sold over 4 million copies worldwide.
Harriet was born in 1988 in Saudi Arabia. Her family moved back to England when she was one-and-a-half. She grew up in Hitchin in Hertfordshire and now lives with her husband and daughter near some beautiful countryside in Bedfordshire, England. Harriet loves everything magical, sparkly, and teeny-tiny.
You can find out more about Harriet and her books at her website, harrietmuncaster.co.uk
