

But when she makes Diana sick by accidentally giving her the wrong drink, Diana’s mother is furious. One day, Marilla comes up with a plan to keep Anne out of mischief - Anne can host her very own tea party and invite her kindred spirit, Diana Barry! Anne is thrilled, and sets out to host the most lovely and grown-uppish tea party she can muster. Marilla Cuthbert, who adopted Anne in the last year, wishes Anne would act a little more sensibly. She even decorates her room with branches and colorful leaves for the occasion. The fourth book in an early chapter book series inspired by Anne of Green Gables, starring the spirited Anne Shirley as she hosts her very first tea party with her kindred spirit, Diana, to disastrous results.Īnne loves having pretend tea parties by herself. Written by Kallie George, illustrated by Elly MacKay This fanciful, whimsical picture book will charm young mermaids and little pirates everywhere, and inspire them to embrace the spirit of the ocean in the things around them, no matter where they live! a shipwrecked sailor? Even if that shipwreck is actually an overturned bike and the sailor a new kid from a neighboring field, it’s still a chance to make a new friend, one with an imagination as expansive and a love of the ocean as deep as the little girl’s own. But she won’t let a little detail like that stand in the way of being a meadow mermaid! Frolicking in the “waves” of wheat and “oceans” of grass, spying sea horses and. even though she lives on the prairie, with flat land as far as the eye can see. A farm girl with a big imagination turns her landlocked home into an ocean playground in this dreamy picture book for little mermaids everywhere.Ī little girl dreams of adventures in the water and feels the spirit of the ocean all around her.
