The Mermaid Who Came In on The Tide

A little mermaid loses her way on a school outing… She’s ‘The Mermaid who Came in on The Tide’. The author of this book is Lisa Suhay, journalist and author based in Norfolk, Virginia in the States. Read more about her here.   This story marked the arrival of textures in my Cut-out style. They were the idea of the client’s husband, and I’ll always be grateful to him. Lisa has two previous books involving mermaids: There Goes a Mermaid! A NorFolktale (The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Virginia 2003) The Mermaids and Yellow Jack, A NorFolktale (Bon Secours Foundation 2006 The third one in this vein is ‘The Mermaid who Came In With The Tide’ This is where I came in. I’d ‘met’ Lisa via one of her other stories, ‘Heaven’s Dust’, which charmed me and inspired me to contact her with the idea of animating it. So we became FB friends. And when she mentioned the new book in a post, I elbowed my […]