The Mermaids' Night Before Christmas

About the Book For as it has been for centuries and centuriesthat each Christmas EveSanta Claus takes the landand his cousinCalliope Claus takes the sea. Calliope Claus is known far and wide as the Mermaid Chief.From ocean to sea.From river to lake.From bayou to reef. While Santa delivers presents around the globe to good girls and boys.Calliope does the same for mermaids, bringing gems, trinkets, and toys.With imagination and warmth, author Sally Asher and illustrator Melissa Vandiver bring a bustling underwater North Pole and all of its inhabitants to life. The Mermaids’ Night Before Christmas tells the enchanting tale of Mermaid Chief Calliope Claus and her team of narwhals on their joyful Christmas Eve journey delivering gifts to mermaids around the world. About the author:Growing up on a small farm in Washington state, writer and photographer Sally Asher has called New Orleans home since 1994. Asher has been the public relations photographer for Tulane University since 2008 and is