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The Little Mermaid
This series of affordable paperbacks offers an appealing variety of fiction and nonfiction by such popular authors as Jean Marzollo, Joyce Milton, Richard Scarry, and Joanna Cole all carefully geared to the particular reading level of the reader. Using large, bright, full-page pictures and repetition to reinforce word comprehension, the Early Step Into Reading level is per
...moreHardcover, 48 pages
Published
October 28th 1991
by Turtleback Books
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A nice younger reader version of the original tale.
Using simple text and familiar illustrations, this book is great for a beginning reader wanting to read the original tale. It is faithful to the Andersen version, without being too graphic (for example the sea witch magically take the mermaids voice away - similar to the Disney version - instead of cutting her tongue out like in the original). It also takes out any of the religious connotations...more
A nice younger reader version of the original tale.
Using simple text and familiar illustrations, this book is great for a beginning reader wanting to read the original tale. It is faithful to the Andersen version, without being too graphic (for example the sea witch magically take the mermaids voice away - similar to the Disney version - instead of cutting her tongue out like in the original). It also takes out any of the religious connotations...more
One of my all time favorite stories is The Little Mermaid. It doesn't matter who write's the story, Anderson or the Disney version. This particular telling is one I read so many times growing up, I cannot even give you a guestimate at how many timies! It is one of the first books I read in childhood that helped develop my love of books and reading.
This classic tale, and movie is one that most children enjoy. My only concern with this version is the images. Some are a bit more than I would feel comfortable sharing with children. I think with upper grades, a study could be done on the different renditions for this story using the images.
This is a simplified version of the fairy tale, with some of the more horrible Hans Christian Andersen stuff taken out, but it's not nearly as bad as Disney and the illustrations are gorgeous.
A retelling for children's reading done in an actual lyrical and authentic (to Andersen) way. I really enjoy the illustrations as well.
Read this in Kindergarten, so cute.
so sad
I enjoyed this version of the story a lot better than Disney's. It's a little different most notably the ending. I guess this version's ending wasn't suitable for children or may have caused controversy due to the whole issue as to whether or not mermaids had "souls". Either way, if I could find it now, I'd keep it forever.
The Little Mermaid is my favorite Disney story, and this is a wonderful twist to that. It is not the same story but just as good. I have searched many years trying to find this book again and I still have yet to obtain it. I absolutely love this mermaid tale and I can still remember quite a bit of the story, especially the end.
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