Mertales - The Daring Reef Rescue

by Rebecca Timms
Published by Albert Street Books (Allen and Unwin)
ISBN 9781760526566

This is the second illustrated story book in the series of Mertales for readers 6 and over.

While Pearl, Sandy and Coral are extra thrilled to be testing out their mer-mazing new magic powers, Shell is worried because thinks she doesn't have these powers.

Shell thinks she doesn't have any powers, and is feeling a bit left out. But wait, what's that swimming nearby? It's not a whale as one of the mermaids thought, it has too many flippers. After a while they recognise that it's a giant giant turtle in Cockleshell Cove. But they want to know what is it doing here, they normally swim out in the deep blue waters, not close to their reef. Shell is worried that she is too much of a scaredyfish to help.

Through the story the girls find that if they work together they can save the turtle and they will have the best dress up party while rescuing Cocklesell Cove.



Rebecca Timms writes and illustrates the MerTales stories, and lives on Queensland's sunny Gold Coast. She has had real life adventures like almost falling off the Great Wall of China, hiding from grizzly bears in Canada and being chased by giant pigs in outback Queensland.