E I WANT TO KNOW Mermaids Are Real Portia Summers and Dana Meachen Rau Enslow Publishing 101 W 23rd Street Suite 240 New York NY 10011 USA enslow com
Chapter 1 Seeing the Seas For hundreds of years sailors and explorers watched the ocean from the decks of their ships Sometimes creatures from below the water came to the surface Lively dolphins jumped alongside the ship Huge whales came up from the depths to breathe Many worried about sea monsters Sailors watched the water around their ships for these monsters Imagine That Cartographers or mapmakers drew dragons mermaids and sea monsters in the oceans on their maps 5