A comprehensive collection of classic fairy tales by nineteenth-century Danish children's author Hans Christian Andersen including "The Little Mermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling" and including over 150 original drawings and illustrations, critical essays on Andersen's works, and biographies of the author and his illustrators.
Two rascally weavers convince the emperor they are making him beautiful new clothes, visible only to those fit for their posts, but during a royal procession in which he first wears them, a child whispers that the emperor has nothing on.
Presents nine of Andersen's well-known tales: The Emperor's New Clothes, The Princess on the Pea, Thumbelina, The Ugly Duckling, The Tinderbox, The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep, The Little Match Girl, The Nightingale, and The Little Mermaid.
Hans Christian Andersen's classic story about the cold-hearted Snow Queen who abducts a little boy named Kay, sending his friend Gerda on a perilous and magical journey to find him and free him from the Snow Queen's spell.
Though the Emperor neglects the nightingale in preference for a jeweled mechanical imitation, the little bird returns to revive the dying ruler with its beautiful song.
