打开书本，你会被淋湿！走进书里，你会滑倒！所有东西都被水冲洗过，甚至家具、楼梯、书页和文字，一切都漂浮在水面上。所以，对于任何喜欢游泳的人来说……
一二三——跳！
一天，一个名叫“Whatwilltheysay先生”的平凡年轻人回到家，发现美人鱼“沙粒”正坐在他最喜欢的扶手椅上等着他。尽管他反对，两人还是开始了一系列惊险刺激的水上冒险，而他却试图摆脱“沙粒”。但最终，被人看到和半条鱼待在一起的念头，对“Whatwilltheysay先生”来说实在难以承受——人们会怎么说呢？于是，心碎的“沙粒”回到了大海，泡在浴缸里，留下“Whatwilltheysay先生”继续他平凡的生活。然而，“Whatwilltheysay先生”很快发现，他钟爱的“陆地人”生活，缺少了与“沙粒”共度的美好时光里那种水花四溅、光彩夺目（以及浴缸）的乐趣——于是，他违背所有本能，出海寻找“沙粒”。
好评：
"What you will find inside is actually much more exciting than a standard fairytale… The real lure here is the amazing art by Modan. All kinds of kooky details fill the pages, and that flying fish with wings and legs may be my favorite unnamed character of all time. It’s wackadoodle and I love it. Hand it to the mermaid obsessed kiddos. It’ll blow their little minds." ~ World Kid Lit blog
"Full of wry humour and surreal artwork. Modan’s comic-style illustrations are striking, colourful and fun. While younger readers will appreciate the amusing story and visuals, this multi-layered tale will also appeal to older readers (and adults) with its questioning of what is considered normal, embracing difference and accepting of others." ~ Outside in world
"An excellent translation and tale about accepting others and embracing change." ~ Margaret Kennelly, School Library Journal, USA
关于作者：
Nurit Zarchi is a top beloved poet and author for adults and children. She has published many poems and over 100 children’s books, poetry, prose and research. Zarchi has received every major awards including the prestigious Andersen Medal for Children's Literature (four times), the Bialik Prize, the Ze’ev Prize (four times), and she was twice the winner of the Prime Minister’s Prize for her literary work.
Rutu Modan is a prominent illustrator and comic book artist and a professor at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and former editor of the Hebrew edition of MAD Magazine. Her graphic novels Exit Wound (2007) and The Property (2013) were translated into 15 languages. Both books won the Eisner Award. In 2008 she published an illustrated blog for the New York Times. Modan has received the Israel Museum Ben-Yitzhak Award for the Illustrations of Children’s Books multiple times.
