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Dreams Under the Sea
Ariel plans her pretend wedding to Price Eric with the help of her best friends, Flounder and Sebastian.
- GenresPicture BooksChildrens
32 pages, Hardcover
Published July 1, 2005
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September 18, 2025
After becoming a parent, Ariel has become my actual nightmare!!! What did I do to deserve Ariel being my toddler's favorite princess?!? You are 16! You're too old to be playing pretend wedding to a guy you've never talked to, let alone selling your soul to a sea witch just for a chance with this guy! What if he was a loser? Let your frontal lobe develop before making decisions!!!! I need my toddler to find a new princess to obsess over. Rant over!
December 20, 2020
A very nice story time book read for girls.
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February 25, 2009
i loved it! i read it 10 times.
January 20, 2019
A pretend wedding to Prince Eric. This book is a nice read for young girls, keeps the dream alive that all girls desire to one day marry a prince, even a mermaid girl.
August 21, 2021
Super cute book
August 29, 2026
This storybook library book is an inclusion of 6 in a 12 part collection where the former half showcases original Disney Princess stories as per their films. This book is Volume 8 of 12.
The Latter half narrates their wedding procession to their signification male love interests and husbands. They partake in varied timelines as some movies feature a marriage scene by the end of the movie.
The Little Mermaid, Ariel: Dreams Under the Sea serves as a sneak peek spin-off type story that adds to the movie as this delves deeper to the dreamscape of Ariel as she builds the illusion of life on the sruface. This heavily features her iconic treasure trove of land people's belongings especially those she salvaged from Prince Eric's shipping vessel.
In the original 1st installment of the franchise, sea princess Ariel and the prince on land Eric marry by the end of the first movie on a ship central to a joint celebration of their families and a select few of the kindgom citizens and the sea dwellers. This addition to the originally treasure keeping sequence and song number (Under the Sea) from the movie gives dimension and more character to Ariel as she maintains a youthful imagination of first love and manifestation of the future she desires. In modern characterization, Ariel would embody the dedicated delulu as she is highly invested in making an unrealistic situation come to fruition in spite of its impossibility.
As she says in this story, "I'm not sure when or where or how, but I know it will happen. It won't matter that there's an ocean of difference between us. Nothing can stand in the way of true love." As inspiring as this sentiment may be, keep in mind at this point she was entirely baselessly optimistic as she had not even ever made contact with the prince. Only with his name known to her by way of spying and her heart's desire to wed him, she manifested her dreams later on.
Enjoyable tidbit to this is also the marital traditional of the 4 elements: something old something, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. Given the notion that under the sea mer-folk had different traditions, culture, and beliefs, it's amusing that they added this little detail as if it's a universal ecologically transcendent tradition to have these at a wedding. It is also quite heartwarming that despite the aggressive and highly protective nature of Sebastian to look after her as a father-figure type guardian, he played along to the extent that he had a band perform for her imaginary wedding.
This is a sweet side story to the original and a wonderful snippet to read for lovers of this Disney Princess.
The Latter half narrates their wedding procession to their signification male love interests and husbands. They partake in varied timelines as some movies feature a marriage scene by the end of the movie.
The Little Mermaid, Ariel: Dreams Under the Sea serves as a sneak peek spin-off type story that adds to the movie as this delves deeper to the dreamscape of Ariel as she builds the illusion of life on the sruface. This heavily features her iconic treasure trove of land people's belongings especially those she salvaged from Prince Eric's shipping vessel.
In the original 1st installment of the franchise, sea princess Ariel and the prince on land Eric marry by the end of the first movie on a ship central to a joint celebration of their families and a select few of the kindgom citizens and the sea dwellers. This addition to the originally treasure keeping sequence and song number (Under the Sea) from the movie gives dimension and more character to Ariel as she maintains a youthful imagination of first love and manifestation of the future she desires. In modern characterization, Ariel would embody the dedicated delulu as she is highly invested in making an unrealistic situation come to fruition in spite of its impossibility.
As she says in this story, "I'm not sure when or where or how, but I know it will happen. It won't matter that there's an ocean of difference between us. Nothing can stand in the way of true love." As inspiring as this sentiment may be, keep in mind at this point she was entirely baselessly optimistic as she had not even ever made contact with the prince. Only with his name known to her by way of spying and her heart's desire to wed him, she manifested her dreams later on.
Enjoyable tidbit to this is also the marital traditional of the 4 elements: something old something, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. Given the notion that under the sea mer-folk had different traditions, culture, and beliefs, it's amusing that they added this little detail as if it's a universal ecologically transcendent tradition to have these at a wedding. It is also quite heartwarming that despite the aggressive and highly protective nature of Sebastian to look after her as a father-figure type guardian, he played along to the extent that he had a band perform for her imaginary wedding.
This is a sweet side story to the original and a wonderful snippet to read for lovers of this Disney Princess.
February 17, 2017
I was disappointed in this book. I thought that it made Ariel seem too young. It all seemed a little forced also and I didn't feel like Sebastian or Flounder were true to their characters. The illustrations were good though - they did look just like the movie. It was an ok book all together, but I was hoping for more.
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December 16, 2012why cant i read the book??
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