Anderson published "The Little Mermaid" in 1837 ... Studio Ghibli's Ponyo imagines an ancient aquatic world as the goldfish princess Ponyo's father, Fujimoto, brings ancient Devonian fish back ...

At home, in the bathtub, she tried to imagine her own mermaid tail forming. Later, she named a goldfish Madison. Splash! bounced back into Dunn's life when she was at art school in her 20s ...