About the Author

Robin Riding is a children's book author and mermaid enthusiast! Her first book "Mermaids Fast Asleep" is available now through Macmillan publishing and wherever children's books are sold. Illustrated by Zoe Persico, "Mermaids Fast Asleep" is a lyrical bedtime picture book that appeals to the imagination, envisioning an undersea world where diverse mermaid families peacefully drift off to sleep. Robin Riding is available for bookstore events, school visits and appearances. Her story hours can be accompanied by music, puppets, puppet making and so much more! Please visit the Author Page URL for more information!Mermaids Fast Asleep began in 1968, when a little girl who loved mermaids wrote a poem about them. It went like this:Do you suppose, way down deep There are mermaids fast asleep? Silver mermaids with golden hair Way down deep, down deep down there? Years went by and the little girl grew up and became a songwriter and singer in a band, and she had a child of her own. She loved children even more than she loved mermaids, and wanted to write a song that the kids she loved would enjoy. She wrote a lullaby based on the poem she had written long ago, and called it Mermaids Fast Asleep.The song had a special kind of magic to it, because it captured the love of a little girl for mermaids. Now she sang the song to the children she loved.More years went by and the grown little girl's children grew up, too, but they always remembered the magical Mermaid lullaby. Then one day somebody said, "Why not make this lullaby into a picture book, so more children can enjoy it? "

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