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PreS-Gr 2— Young Julián lives with his abuela and is obsessed with mermaids. He imagines taking off his clothes, growing a tail, and swimming freely through the blue-tinted water with swirls of fish and stingrays. After spying some women on a train dressed as mermaids, Jul...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The front endpapers show a group of older women in a pool and a boy swimming underwater. On the next spread (the copyright and title pages), the child, Julián, is walking to the subway with one of the women, his abuela, followed by three magnificent-looking people dressed as mermaids. Julián loves mermaids, and this encounter leads him into a daydream where he dives deep into the water, shedding clothes and transforming himself into a merma...Log In or Sign Up to Read More