These are short, simple chapter books written between 1992 and 1994.
The books have lovely colors and cute black-and-white illustrations inside.
The first book is about an unwanted guest at the palace. Spoiled Pearl is the type that convinces adults she's sweet as pie, but she's actually quite the snotty, selfish, manipulative mermaid.
Being the same age, poor Ariel is saddled with her. Pearl sees Ariel and Flounder carrying loads of glasses to Ariel's secret grotto and uses the knowledge that one of King Triton's daughters likes human objects to manipulate Ariel. Ariel's forced to basically be Pearl's servant and the bitchy mermaid gets them into a couple really dangerous situations. Thankfully, it finally comes out that Pearl did not see Ariel's grotto, just the glasses, so Ariel dumps the glasses and she's no longer under Pearl's control.
I love these books for their details about Ariel's older sisters. There's a lot of debate about the girls' birth order, but I've always stuck with what the books (and the early comic series) say. I'll be summarizing the plot of each book and then listing off what new tidbits we learned about the sisters.
Aquata is named the eldest.
Adella is shown to be vain and into beauty stuff.
Sadly, that's all for this book. It's mostly centered on Ariel and Pearl.
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