Books in Disney the Little Mermaid series

With unforgettable characters and thrilling adventures, Disney's Acadeny Award-winning The Little Mermaid is one of the most celebrated animated films of all time - now spectacularly presented in beautiful screen captures that will that will take you back to all the adventure! Venture under the sea where Ariel, a free-spirited mermaid princess, longs to be part of the human world. After bravely striking a bargain with Ursula, a sneaky sea witch, Ariel embarks on the journey of a lifetime. With Flounder and Sebastian at her side, Ariel will need all of her courage and determination to make things right in both her worlds.

The Little Mermaid Hans Christian Andersen "The Little Mermaid" is a fairy tale by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid who is willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid to gain a human soul. The Little Mermaid dwells in an underwater kingdom with her widowed father (the sea king or Mer-King), her dowager grandmother, and her five older sisters, each of whom had been born one year apart. When a mermaid turns fifteen, she is permitted to swim to the surface for the first time to glimpse the world above, and when the sisters become old enough, each of them visits the upper world one at a time every year. As each returns, the Little Mermaid listens longingly to their various descriptions of the world inhabited by human beings. When the Little Mermaid's turn comes, she rises up to the surface, watches a birthday celebration being held on a ship in honor of a handsome prince, and falls in love with him from a safe distance. A violent storm hits, sinking the boat, and the Little Mermaid saves the prince from drowning. She delivers him unconscious to the shore near a temple. Here, she waits until a young woman from the temple and her ladies in waiting find him. To her dismay, the prince never sees the Little Mermaid or even realizes that it was she who had originally saved his life.

Visit the beautiful undersea world of Disney's beloved classic The Little Mermaid. Ariel has always loved living under the sea. One day she finds a shimmering surprise—her first object from the surface! Before long, her new treasure has her thinking about the world above, what the object does, and whether those two legged creatures called humans are as dangerous as they sound. . . .