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Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen. Candlewick Press (MA), $22.99 (207pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-2515-3. A handful of fall books ... then introduces each of the included 13 stories ...
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.
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, edited and illus. by Lisbeth Zwerger, trans. by Anthea Bell, originally published in 1991, includes three additional stories, and its new design matches ...
Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales are not fairy tales at all; they're too bittersweet, too knowledgable about the way of the world for that.
Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” is having a moment.. First it was the basis for the Disney animated musical “Frozen,” which was released this past November and became a smash ...
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 ...
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 comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along. By Sabrina Orah Mark Two new middle grade novels insist Hans Christian ...
Art book powerhouse Taschen pays homage to this legacy with a new book, The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, which features 23 of his beloved stories. There are the big hits, like The ...
Google has gone gaga for Hans Christian Andersen stories including one of his most enduring works, "Thumbelina." On the anniversary of the Danish author's 205th birthday, the search engine ...
This Clever New Hans Christian Andersen Museum Looks Like It Sprang From One of the Author’s Fairy Tales. ... the Danish structure was inspired by Andersen’s 1835 story The Tinderbox.
The stories of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen – including "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Little Mermaid," "The Princess and the Pea," "The Snow Queen," and "The Ugly Duckling" – are ...