Andersen, H. C

The wares of the poor little match girl illuminate her cold world, bringing some beauty to her brief, tragic life.

After being accidentally launched on a dangerous and terrible voyage, a one-legged soldier finds his way back to his true love--a paper dancing girl.

An ugly duckling is scorned by everyone because he is different, but after a lonely winter he discovers he has grown into a beautiful swan.

A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves she is a real princess.