Marie the mermaid is bored with life and longs to play with the children on the shore until one day she meets a pink dolphin in the ocean. This single encounter transforms her, just as this story will young readers, helping them to reconsider the natural world all around.
Theadora Whittington began to paint and draw in the 1990s while travelling extensively in China. She has exhibited in London and Beijing, and has degrees in law, theology, and illustration. Theadora also worked with Yi minority children to paint a traditional story on the wall of their school deep in the mountains of Sichuan.