Small size wordless book. Child is at the beach and builds a mermaid of sand and shells. A wave washes the sand mermaid away. Last picture is a real mermaid in the water, waving goodbye to the child.
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New format, same book stumper solving.
This book was in the collection when I was a children’s librarian in the 1990’s. It was old then and was culled after I left the library (darn!).
It was small in size, maybe 6 x 8.
This was an old book when I saw it in the 1990’s.
Dimensions were about 6×8”
I vaguely remember this book too. I thought it was by Val Willis, and was a companion book tto The Mystery in the Bottle…only made smaller. But for some reason, Penelope Lively keeps coming to miind too..
Neither of those, sadly.
I was certain it was a John Goodell book, but now not so sure, as none of his books that I have googled is the right one.
This book has both words and illustrations, but otherwise fits the description:
‘The Sand Lady’ by Reed, Gwendolyn E; illustrated by Shelly Sacks
Publication date 1968
Publisher New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
“A girl who is lonely and thinks there is nothing to do at her grandmother’s house by the sea finds things very different when she creates a mermaid in the sand of the beach”