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Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Born

September 12, 1984

Website

http://www.prettyokmaggie.com/

Twitter

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Genre

Young Adult, Children's, Graphic Novels

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall (1984 -) is the author of Also an Octopus, The Mermaid the Witch and the Sea, its sequel The Siren, The Spy and The Song, Squad, and Love in the Library.

She lives in Oakland, California with her husband, children, and objectively perfect dog.

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Who’s Afraid of Children’s Books?

This essay was written for the print only periodical, THE APPROACH, in Fall of 2025 and has been republished here with their permission.

There’s a phrase book banners use a lot: Parent’s rights. They borrowed it from the anti-masker/anti-vaxxer crowd, and while the venn diagram of those demographics isn’t a perfect circle it’s close. Parents have rights—this is an argument you hear a lot from t

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Average rating: 3.88 · 36,315 ratings · 6,701 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Lisa Sterle (Illustrator) 3.80 avg rating — 15,120 ratings — published 2021 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea (The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 12,789 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Yas Imamura (Illustrator) 4.47 avg rating — 3,908 ratings — published 2022 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Worst Ronin by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Faith Schaffer (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.89 avg rating — 1,513 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Also an Octopus by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Benji Davies (Illustrator) 3.99 avg rating — 985 ratings — published 2016 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Siren, the Song, and the Spy 4.07 avg rating — 801 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mermaids Never Drown: Tales to Dive For (Untold Legends, #2) by Zoraida Córdova (Goodreads Author), Natalie C. Parker (Goodreads Author), Darcie Little Badger (Goodreads Author) 3.64 avg rating — 843 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bathtime for Snow Monkeys by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Yas Imamura (Illustrator) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Do People Do at the Science Museum? by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Qin Leng (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Do People Do All Day at the Science Museum? by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Qin Leng (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea (2 books)
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“There’s freedom in stories, you know. We read them and we become something else. We imagine different lives, and while we turn the pages, we get to live them. To escape the lot we’re given.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

tags: book, escapism, reading, stories, story

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“Yes, she was an orphan, a sister, a pirate, a girl, and also a boy. But more importantly, she was a person who sought power to protect those she loved. Including herself. Or himself. Both were equally true to her. Neither told the whole story.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

tags: genderfluid

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“She was not a creature of courage, but she was one of spite.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

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