Daughter of the Sea

By Berlie Doherty

Book Overview

Gioga is a gift from the sea to the childless Jannet and Munroe--but only a temporary one. The couple treat Gioga as if she were of their own flesh and blood, not understanding that they would need to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140379517
• ISBN13: 9780140379518
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Puffin
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.5" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

This Book Is FAB!!!!!!!!!

This book winds legends and superstitions into a story about a girl, who is not a human, but a selkie, half woman, half seal. She was left by the wild selkies as a present for Eileen,( a woman who lives in an upturned fishing boat, and is supposedly mad, but who is a friend of the selkies) but is found by a fisherman, who takes the child home to his wife, leaving the selkie skin in the sea...

A great Selkie tale

A great fable based upon many of the Selkie legends from different lands. A childless couple raise as their own a baby girl the husband found one night floating in the sea during a storm. Munroe suspects right away that this child is one of the Selkies (seal-people) but keeps the secret from his wife Jannet. But when a mysterious stranger returns years later asking for the return of his child, the desperate woman tries to hide the child - and brings upon her village the anger of the sea and the seal people. Finally their daughter must chose for herself whether to return to the sea, or stay with the people she has grown to love as her parents. A great addition to lovers of tales of the Selkie.

ENCHANTING

Berlie Doherty weaves a spellbinding and mystical mixture of old folk tales into this enchanting story.She Makes us empathise and feel for each of the characters.We understand and feel their pains.I have thoroughly enjoyed this book ,it is one that can be read over and over again. My class of year 6 children have been enthralled by the story and hung upon every word. Berlie Doherty has become our favourite author.

Full of imagery

The first time I read this book, it was in the National Library. It seemed to be calling to me from the shelves. And, it certainly was magical, all that I could have asked for and more. It's so haunting and full of beauty, it draws you into the story, yet somehow the characters seem so far away and untouchable, like they're in their own world. When the story, finally ended, I was like, oh! Gone! Just like that. It slips away even before you can reach out and grab it, and then you're left wondering what happened.

Strange!!!

I did enjoy this book, but I have to say that it's quite strange! It's quite hard to explain what it's like, really. It was certainly out of the ordinary; a magical story is a way to describe it, but nothing like the usual witches and dragons. All I can really say is that this book was very good, but different from anything I've ever read!