NEPTUNE RISING
Songs & Tales of the Undersea Folk
Illustrated by David Wiesner
Philomel 1982
ISBN# 0-399-20918-2 Philomel hardcover

These stories and poems--some reprints--are all about the undersea folk. Mermaids, mermen, selchies, undines, merrows, the sea gods. Stories range from the tragic "The Lady and the Merman," to the angry "The Undine," to the terrifying "The Malaysian Mer." Wiesner would win the Caldecott Medal a few years later.

       Out of print.

Recording: "The Ballad of the White Seal Maid" from NEPTUNE RISING in Lui Collins "There's A Light" -- Lui Collins recordings at Mabels Music and Card Shop.

Recording: "The Ballad of the White Seal Maid" from NEPTUNE RISING (the Lui Collins music) sung by Holly Tannen, in "Rime of the Ancient Matriarch, Email Holly Tannen htannen@mcn.org.

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