Title The Penguin book of mermaids / edited by Cristina Bacchilega and Marie Alohalani Brown.

Publication Info.	New York : Penguin Books, 2019.
	© 2019.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department	398.21 PENGUIN	Check Shelf
Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department	FIC BACC	Check Shelf
Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction	398.21 PENGUIN	Check Shelf
New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction	FIC BACCHILEGA, C	Check Shelf
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	SF MERMAIDS	Check Shelf
South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction	398.21 BACCHILEGA	Check Shelf

Description	xxix, 330 pages ; 20 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	Among the oldest and most popular mythical beings, mermaids and other merfolk have captured the imagination since long before Ariel sold her voice to a sea witch in the beloved Disney film adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid." As far back as the eighth century B.C., sailors in Homer's Odyssey stuffed wax in their ears to resist the Sirens, who lured men to their watery deaths with song. More than two thousand years later, the gullible New York public lined up to witness a mummified "mermaid" specimen that the enterprising showman P. T. Barnum swore was real.
Subject	Mermaids.
	Fairy tales -- History and criticism.
	Symbolism in fairy tales.
	Women -- Folklore.
	Sex role -- Folklore.
	Human ecology.
	Spirituality in literature.
	Fairy tales. (OCoLC)fst00919916
	Human ecology. (OCoLC)fst00962941
	Mermaids. (OCoLC)fst01017218
	Spirituality in literature. (OCoLC)fst01130202
	Symbolism in fairy tales. (OCoLC)fst01140776
	Women -- Folklore. (OCoLC)fst01176746
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Added Author	Bacchilega, Cristina, 1955- editor.
	Brown, Marie Alohalani editor.
Added Title	Mermaids
Other Form:	Online version: Penguin book of mermaids New York : Penguin Books, 2019 9780525505570 (DLC) 2019020637
ISBN	9780143133728 (paperback)
	0143133721 (paperback)
	9780525505570 (ebook)

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