Imagine a school where your best friend is a dolphin.

Imagine Mermaid Academy, a fin-tastic magical, underwater boarding school, where pupils and dolphins work together and learn to guard the precious oceans they live in.

If you’re a fan of mermaids, dolphins, magic and adventure then don’t miss this mer-mazing new series, brought to you by Linda Chapman, Lucy Truman and me – Julie Sykes.

We’re having such a clam-tactic time working together on Mermaid Academy. The first book, Isla and Bubble, published in the Uk on May 4th. We hope you love it as much as we do.

Click on the cover to read more about each book or to pre-order from Hive on-line book shop.

Praise for Mermaid Academy

The Guardian featured Isla and Bubble in its June 2023 run-down of the best new picture books and novels, ‘the co-writers behind the incredibly successful ongoing Unicorn Academy series, which is being adapted for screen by Netflix and Spinmaster for release in November 2023. Their next series Mermaid Academy: Isla and Bubble is a story about “a magical underwater boarding-school adventure spiced with just the right amount of peril” and promises to be just as captivating.‘