About this title: This collection of over forty of Anderson's most popular stories includes "The Ugly Duckling", "The Red Shoes", and "The Little Match Girl."
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Description: Good. 351 p., [5] leaves of plates: ill. (some col. ); 19 cm. Cover title: Andersen's fairy tales. "With over two hundred illustrations by Harrison Weir, V. Pendersen, M.L. Stone, A.W. Bayes, and others. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
Date published: 1945
ISBN-13:9780448054551ISBN:0448054558
Description: Szyk, Arthur. Poor in poor dust jacket. Starts with table of contents. spine broken, no pages to identify publisher or date-see picture. Library binding. Cloth over boards. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ferguson Publishing Company
Date published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780894341229ISBN:0894341227
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. SMALL STAIN ON EDGE OF BOOK, OTHERWISE LOOKS FINE CONDITION. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Audience: Children/juvenile. HARDBACK WITH NO DUST COVER. SMALL STAIN ON EDGE OF BOOK, OTHERWISE LOOKS FINE CONDITION. K-Andersen, Hans Christian, 1992, Ferguson Publishing Company. Anthologies; Children's stories, Danish; Classics; Denmark; Fairy tales; Fairy Tales & Folklore; Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology; Fiction; Juvenile Fiction; Scandinavian; Short stories read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Gallery Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780831713508ISBN:083171350X
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. 256 pp. Dj is tattered and torn along edges and corners. Prior owner's name in crayon inside. Text is excellent. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Smithmark Publishers
Date published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780831713508ISBN:083171350X
Description: Good. Dust Cover Missing. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Children's Classics
Date published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780517205730ISBN:0517205734
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Children's Classics
Date published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780517205730ISBN:0517205734
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ferguson Publishing Company
Date published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780894341229ISBN:0894341227
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
"I recently chose this book for my book cub. I love HCA fairy tales. They are so compelling and read as though you are sitting at the man's feet and he is telling them straight to you and guestering with his overly large hands. What was so great about reading them this time is this particular edition that is translated by Tiina Nunnally. It is incredible with it's bio of him in the front- a MUST read and the notes about each story in the back to conect it to a time and place in the authors life. Also, the translation is fantastic. At the begining of each story is a picture of one of HCA's many intricte paper cut outs that he often created, which inspired me to get creative as well. I like that you can read one story or all of them. Some stories are one page long and others are 30, so you can take or leave it based on your time limit. If you haven't read The Little Mermaid and only seen the Disney Movie then you are really missing out. One of the most heartbreaking love stories you will ever read. My personal favorite is Great Clause and Little Clause. I laughed out loud when I read in the back notes that "Andersen sanitizes the sexual innuendo of the traditional version by giving the farmer an irrational dislike of deacons, though the cuckold theme is clear to adult readers." As a kid I totally bought that the farmer just had an irrational dislike of deacons, and rereading them as an adult has just been a pleasure. He is the original to what Pixar is doing now with thier storytelling that will entertain kids, allow them to learn lessons, and have a lot of deep thinking and jokes specifically put in just for adults. Just a note to parents - Some of these stories can be somewhat graphic and if you have a very sensative child you might want to preview them first, these are not your sanatized Disney version, but that is what is great about them. Enjoy!! I have also included some quotes I like about fairy tales.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
When Albert Einstein was asked how to develop intelligence in young people, he answered: "Read fairy tales. Then read more fairy tales."
"Storytellers make us remember what mankind would have been like, had not fear and the failing will and the laws of nature tripped up its heels."
-- W.B. Yeats
"In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." -- Charles Dickens"
"Hadiah dari orangtua saya setelah dibagi rapot dulu :) Saya, maupun anak lainnya pastilah sangat bahagia pernah membaca atau dibacakan buku ini. Kisahnya banyak dilihat orang di tv... Sudah banyak difilmkan... Baca aja... Sangat direkomendasikan bagi siapa pun. Sang anak... Sang ibu... Sang Ayah... Yang pasti, tidak ada salahnya sejenak menjadi anak kecil kembali :)"
"I recieved a very old copy of this book for my 8th birthday from my mother. It has a dark green cover that is textured. It is full of old color pictures some of which were very scary to me at the time, scary black widow spiders with human faces & such. I'm not sure of the edition or day it was made, the only page gone from the whole book,is that one! But it had been through many people before me. I guess what I liked about these fairy tales others may not, the tales are often sad in their endings. And murders occur in others. The matchstick girl to scared to face her parents without selling all her matches freezes to death out on the streets. But again this is one of those books I always come back to, to read again & again!"
"So far I've only read these tales: The Emperor's New Clothes, The Happy Family, The Little Mermaid, The Nightingale, The Princess and the Pea, The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep, The Snow Queen (awefull!), The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Thumbelina, The Ugly Duckling , The Goblin at the Grocer's, The Shadow (good), It's perfectly true, grief, the snowman,the sandman, the jumpers, the tinderbox, the rose tree regiment, the naughty boy (funny), the swineherd, the little match girl, the wild swans(good), father's always right(one of the best).
I absolutely loved The Goblin at the Grocer's and want a picture of the little Goblin sitting atop the chimney holding his precious book to hang in my home."
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