Little Mermaid: A Read-Aloud Storybook


    A long time ago there lived a mermaid princess named Ariel.  She longed for the human world so much that she surfaced many a times.  Her father did not know of this, for if he found out he would punish her.
     She was so fascinated by the humans that she would go to old sunken ships and collect all the things that were left in the wreckage.  To find out what those thing were she would go to her friend Scully the seagull.
     One day Ariel was out swimming the surface of the ocean when she came upon a ship.  On board the ship there was a prince and his shipmates.  They were celebrating the Prince’s birthday.  When Ariel saw the prince she fell in love.  All of a sudden a storm hit the ship and tore it to pieces.  Much to Ariel's horror she saw the Prince fall under the sea.  She swam as

Ariel, and Prince EricDisney's Ariel saving the prince.
                                                                           Found on Disney's web page.
fast as she could to save him.
Ariel sang to the prince until someone found him.  The Prince woke up and all he could remember was the voice of an angel.
     All Ariel could think about when she returned to the sea was the Prince.  When she got back her father found out that she saved a human.  He was so mad that he forbade her to ever go to the surface again.  Heart- broken, she swam off to the sea witch Ursula.  The sea witch changed Ariel into a human for the price of her voice.  Ariel had three days to get the Prince to kiss her or she would have to give herself to Ursula.
     The Prince found her on the beach; he tried to talk to her but she could not speak.  The Prince then took Ariel to his palace.  The next day the Prince took Ariel on a tour of his kingdom and then they went on a romantic boat ride.  Just as they were about to kiss Ursula’s evil eels tipped the boat over.
Prince Eric, Ariel, and Ursula's nasty eelsAriel and the prince on a boat outing.
                                                                                                Found on Disney's web page.

     Seeing how close the two were getting she came up with a plan to break them up.  Ursula disguised herself as a beautiful woman.  She walked along the beach with Ariel’s voice in a shell around her neck.  The instant the Prince heard the voice he fell in love with the woman and announced the next day that they would be married on his ship.
     While getting ready for the wedding Scully found out that the woman the prince was to marry was Ursula.  A flock of seagulls came to help stop the wedding. One bird broke the shell around Ursula’s neck and Ariel’s voice was returned to her.  The Prince knew that Ariel was the one he loved.  But it was too late.  Ariel was turned back into a mermaid and Ursula snatched her and took her back to the sea.  The Prince fought Ursula and killed her.
     Ariel was so unhappy that she was without her Prince.  Her father saw this and he knew that he had to do some thing.  He gave up his daughter of the sea and turned her into a human.
King Triton, Sebastian, and ArielAriel getting changd back into a human.
                                                                                        Found on Disney's web page.
Later Ariel and the Prince were married and they lived happily ever after.
 
 

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