The Little Mermaid Author:Hans Christian Andersen, Hubert Sergeant (Illustrator), Marlee Alex (Translator) The Little Mermaid is one of six children of the Sea King, whose wife has died. None has feet, only a tail. The children are raised by him and his mother. Each of the king’s daughters must remain under water until they attain age 15 when they can swim to the surface, sit on a rock or swim where they like and see the outside world. Since th... more »eir grandmother does not describe the upper world very well, each of the younger children waits to hear from their older sibling what she has seen. None of the sisters longed to know about the upper world more than the beautiful Little Mermaid because she was the youngest and had to wait the longest. She was fascinated by the hundreds of things that her sisters told her they saw. She heard many tales because each sister marveled at different sights.
On the Little Mermaid's fifteenth birthday she visits the world above the sea for the first time and falls in love with a prince whom she rescues from a storm....
Capturing the magic and cruelty of Hans Christian Andersen's original tale, this powerful new version reveals the spectacle of the worlds below and above the sea, and the sadness of unfulfilled romance between a mermaid and a prince.« less