For Andie Gladman, the narrator of Cary Fagan’s HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN LIVES NEXT DOOR (Tundra, 160 pp., $16.99, ages 9 to 12), middle school is as toxic as Mam’s match factory.

This year adults and children will be asked to doff their hats for the 200th anniversary of Hans Christian Andersen's birth. The author of hundreds of books, plays and stories, Andersen remains ...

Commentary and archival information about Hans Christian Andersen from The New York Times. Skip to content Skip to site index. ... Igiaba Scego, an author born in Rome to Somali parents, ...

Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales are not fairy tales at all; ... the author of immortal tales". But Andersen had to wait until 1954 to find a good and faithful translator in Reginald Spink.

Andersen’s Fairy Tales in Hebrew. A prolific author of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Hans Christian Andersen (1805 – 1875) is renowned for his beloved 156 fairy tales, which have been ...

Danish historian Esben Brage has discovered a previously unknown story written by Hans Christian Andersen, the 19 th-century author responsible for such children’s classics as “The Little ...

Hans Christian Andersen, the famed Danish author of The Ugly Duckling and The Little Mermaid, once wrote a story called “The Jewish Girl.”. This information on its own might raise alarm given ...

Danes Mark Hans Christian Andersen Bicentennial Denmark holds a weeklong festival in honor of fairy tale author Hans Christian Andersen, who was born 200 years ago on April 2. Scott Simon talks ...

A man dressed in the trademark top hat of Hans Christian Andersen walks the streets of Odense, Denmark, to honour Andersen's 200th birthday (Image: Newsquest) Children’s books stimulate the ...