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Best-loved stories / by Hans Christian Andersen ; retold and introduced by Neil Philip ; illustrated by Isabelle Brent.

by Philip, Neil.

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Little, Brown, c2010.

398.209489 P549b

Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875 -- Translations into English.

Fairy tales -- Denmark.

Children's stories, Danish -- Translations into English.

223 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.

Thumbelina -- Little Ida's Flowers -- The Wild Swans -- The Sweethearts -- The Nightingale -- The Bell -- The Snow Queen -- A Story in Seven Parts: 1. The Mirror and the Splinters ; 2. A Little Boy and a Little Girl ; 3. The Old Woman's Flower Garden ; 4. A Prince and a Princess ; 5. The Little Robber Girl ; 7. The Lapp Woman and The Finn Woman ; What Happened in The Snow Queen's Palace and What Happened Aftr That ... -- The Collar -- The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep -- The Goblin at the Grocer's ... -- The Shadow -- In aThousand Years' Time -- It's Perfectly True ... -- Dance, Dance, Dolly Mine! -- Grief -- The Gardner and His Master -- Father's Always Right -- The Snowman.

These tales show the many facets of Anderson's unique genius. By turns romantic and practical, sentimental and comic, straightforward and ironic, they can provide both an evening's entertainment and continued food for thought.

Children's stories, Danish.

Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875.

Brent, Isabelle, 1961-

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