This was actually my first awareness of mer-people. I was very young, and when I read this book, I was amazed! lol I must have been 7 or 8 years old.

As depicted in this book, the merman is very small, about the size of average fish. It happens to get dropped into Lucy’s tree house from a bird that was trying to eat him.

Silly little story, but the imagery and the wonder really stuck with me over the years.