The Very Best Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen for the Modern Reader (Translated)

Hans Christian Andersen

aug. 2013 · KidLit-O Press

Om denne e-bog

Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytales are magical; but how do you get kids excited about the stories when most translations were written over 100 years ago in a dated English? This is a collection of the very best known works of Andersen in modern English!

All the classic tales are here (including: The Little Mermaid, The Princess and the Pea, The Ice Maiden, The Snow Queen, Thumbelina, The Ugly Duckling, and the Emperor’s New Clothes)

This book is also available as a larger anthology with even more of Andersen’s stories.

KidLit-o is a new publishing house just for kids! From reimagined classics to history books, there's something for everyone here! 

Om forfatteren

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 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.