The Lost Merbaby
Margaret Joyce Baker
Hardcover
(Viking Children's Books, July 26, 1979)
Hardcover in Dust Jacket. The Lost Merbaby was originally published in 1927. On the dust jacket front flap of my copy is printed 'This book has been chosen by the Editors of the Junior Literary Guild as the selection for February, 1933, sent to Boys and Girls 6, 7, and 8 years of age.' Written by Margaret Baker. Illustrated by Mary Baker. . 'A fisherman and his wife find a merbaby and care for her as their own, but when they realize that the howling and roaring of the sea are not the wind, but the mourning of the loss of the merbaby, they sadly return her to the sea with the other mermaids.'