Kids Summer Reading Exclusive: Good Reads with Liz Kessler

When I was a kid I loved stories of mermaids and (I'm dating myself here) liked to pretend I was Darryl Hannah in the movie Splash.  I would have loved Liz Kessler's Emily Windsnap books, and recently passed them along to my nine year-old neice--she now has mermaid fever and is spending the summer reading and dreaming her way through the series.  Kessler does a fantastic job of creating fun summertime reads for girls--in her Philippa Fisher series fairy godmothers are not only real, but they also have help from fairy godsisters--so it's fitting that she is this week's featured Summer Reading author.  In the exclsive video below we travel with her from a big blue rocking chair, to a gorgeous seaside, to the inside of the phone booth, and beyond, while she talks about the books she loved as a kid and some of her more recent favorites:

• The Adventures of the Wishing Chair - by Enid Blyton
• Secret Seven series - by Enid Blyton
• The Phantom Tollbooth - by Norton Juster
• Real Mermaids Don't Wear Toe Rings -by Helene Boudreau
  
• The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins