Gallery: Books and Short Stories (4)

Ariel, Flounder and Sebastian befriend a baby whale, and the story has a couple of similarities with the TV series episode A Whale of a Tale. This story was also published under the title "The Big Baby".

This simple story is part of the "First Readers" reading series, and features Ariel and Sebastian going on a treasure hunt.

This unusual illustrated storybook features 5 short stories that are similar to and match up with the 1994 novel series, in that the stories are focused on life in the palace and especially the seven princesses, Attina is a bookworm, Adella is beauty-obsessed, and other things. The stories in this book are:

• "Ursula's Curse" - Ariel puts on a ring cursed by Ursula and falls into a deep sleep.
• "Toby the Terrible" - The princesses take turns babysitting Toby, a merboy with a deep mischievous streak.
• "Sea Horse Steeplechase" - Ariel becomes coach for her sisters in the sea horse steeplechase race. (Nice depiction of Ariel as bossy when she's in charge. She's far more similar to Triton than she realizes!)
• "Having a Ball" - Triton and family receive an invite for a ball by Lady Ula, a new arrival in Atlantica.
• "Flounder Goes North" - Ariel befriends Anemone, a mermaid from the Arctic who's amazed by the beauty of Atlantica.

The scans below are only of the major illlustrations in the book.

Spot is visiting Ariel and gang when they get on the bad side of Crabby the crab. Triton even gets a share of the adventure in this one (!) which is unusual but very welcome.

Ariel sets out to prove some cocky your sea-horse racers wrong. I'm not sure exactly where this short story originated from, but it's featured in one of the "5-Minute Adventure Stories" books and "Happily Ever After Stories".

The cute little board book has Atlanticans holding a fishy face contest.

This junior picturebook has two stories about autumn, and in Ariel's she observes human celebrating Halloween and decides she wants to try it herself.

This is another version of the story about how Ariel learns about human Christmas and decides to bring its practices into Atlantica.