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Little Mermaid


First Fairy Tales

No. of pages 24

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Great for age 0-4 years
This book lets you follow the adventures of a little mermaid, who falls in love with a human prince, but must make a deal with an evil sea witch in order to walk on land. This traditional story is retold in rhyme in this special padded boardbook. You can count how many times the bright little fish appears throughout the story. Lively illustrations and amusing rhyming text make this book ideal for reading aloud to small children, or for more confident readers to enjoy by themselves. When a prince's ship is lost at sea, A mermaid swims to him speedily. She takes him by his royal hand, And tows him safely to dry land. She gazes at the prince, now asleep, And falls in love, true and deep. She swims away, with a cry, "I must marry him or die." Read on to find out how she plans, To gain some legs and get her man...

 

This book is part of a book series called First Fairy Tales .

There are 24 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Anness Publishing .

Jan Lewis's distinctive work has appeared on greetings cards, in animatics for advertising, and in animation for TV, though the bulk of her work has been for a wide range of attractive children's books.

This book contains the following story:

The Little Mermaid
Deep, deep down in the sea lived the sea king and queen and their brood of mermaid daughters. When each child turned sixteen she was allowed to visit the surface of the sea and look out upon the human world. One by one each girl came of age, but having satisfied their curiosity, each agreed that their sea world was more enchanting than the world above the sea. Until the time came for the youngest princess to visit the seas surface, whereupon she saw a ship filled with beautiful people having a party and gazed upon the most handsome of all, a young prince. The youngest mermaid watched all day but then as evening drew in, a storm erupted tossing the ship this way and that. The handsome young prince was thrown into the sea and would have drowned but for the plucky young mermaid who rescued him. Scared of being discovered, the little mermaid left the unconscious prince on the beach where he was found by a lovely young woman. The prince believed that it was the young woman who had rescued

This book is in the following series:

First Fairy Tales

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