Favorite Fairy Tales
by H. C. Andersen
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Nine of the Great Dane's tales: The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Nightingale, Thumbelina, Great Claus and Little Claus, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Fir Tree, and The Princess and the Pea.Tags
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A collection of seven of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales for children. Illustrated by Paul Durand the book has many drawings of nature and people to support the classic tales of Andersen.
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The stories are still being told today (and Disney is making them into movies) because people still want to hear the stories of love winning out over all odds, and good people having good things happen to them. These are the fairytales I grew up hearing and then read to my children. The pictures are wonderful and have a very foggy quality to them that makes them perfect for fairytales that could be true or not. Great stories for all ages.
A collection of seven of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales for children. Illustrated by Paul Durand the book has many drawings of nature and people to support the classic tales of Andersen.
Review:
The stories are still being told today (and Disney is making them into movies) because people still want to hear the stories of love winning out over all odds, and good people having good things happen to them. These are the fairytales I grew up hearing and then read to my children. The pictures are wonderful and have a very foggy quality to them that makes them perfect for fairytales that could be true or not. Great stories for all ages.
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Hans Christian Andersen, one of the best known figures in literature, is best know for combining traditional folk tales with his own great imagination to produce fairy tales known to most children today. The Danish writer was born in the slums of Odense. Although he was raised in poverty, he eventually attended Copenhagen University. Although show more Andersen wrote poems, plays and books, he is best known for his Fairy Tales and Other Stories, written between 1835 and 1872. This work includes such famous tales as The Emperor's New Clothes, Little Ugly Duckling, The Tinderbox, Little Claus and Big Claus, Princess and the Pea, The Snow Queen, The Little Mermaid, The Nightingale, The Story of a Mother and The Swineherd. Andersen's greatest work is still influential today, helping mold some of the works of writers ranging from Charles Dickens to Oscar Wilde and inspiring many of the works of Disney and other motion pictures. Andersen, who traveled greatly during his life, died in his home in Rolighed on August 4, 1875. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books
- DDC/MDS
- 398.2 — Society, Government, and Culture Customs, etiquette & folklore Folklore & Folktales Folk literature
- LCC
- PZ8 .A541974 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Danish, English, Russian
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- 7
