Hans Christian Andersen

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.

After saving a prince from drowning, a mermaid princess embraces a life of extreme self-sacrifice to win his love and gain an immortal soul. Over a century after its first publication, Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid persists as one of the world’s most enduring works of fantasy for children. This edition combines the world-famous translation of H.B. Paull with two sets of classic illustrations, the engravings of Vilhelm Pedersen from...

The story that was the inspiration for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis and more recently, Frozen by Disney is re-designed in celebration of 50 years of working with Bernadette Watts--one of Europe's most recognized and beloved fairy-tale artists, known in Europe simply as Bernadette. When a young boy is cursed and unable to detect goodness, a young girl goes on a courageous journey to restore his heart and free him from the palace...

The King of the Sea and his daughters the mermaids live together under the crystalline waters of a deep ocean. In order to conquer the heart of a prince, the youngest of the mermaids asks the wicked Witch of the Seas to change her fish tail for two precious legs.

In "The Red Shoes" a peasant girl is adopted by a rich old lady and grows up vain and spoiled. Karen is so enamored of a pair of new red shoes that she wears them to church, in spite of her foster mother who warns her she must only wear black shoes in church. A mysterious old soldier admires the shoes and charms them with a tap of his hand. From this point on, she becomes unable to stop dancing and eventually comes to realize she is being punished...

El emperador amaba tanto la elegancia que solo pensaba en bellos trajes. No gobernaba, no iba a cazar: quería solo los tejidos más preciados, los sastres más hábiles, y trajes nuevos, cada vez más hermosos. La colección Cuentos de bolsillo reúne los cuentos y fábulas de toda la vida relatados con una visión muy actual y acompañados por magníficas ilustraciones de artistas de primera línea. La redacción de los textos en letra ligada es...

Este libro recopila varios cuentos clásicos de Hans Christian Andersen, como La sirenita, El intrépido soldadito de plomo y El patito feo, con una maravillosa adaptación de mano del escritor colombiano Alvaro Vanegas. Así se mezlcan la melancolía y tristeza que caracterizaban al autor danés -que siempre estuvieron presentes en su vida- con el toque oscuro y macabro que caracteriza a Vanegas.

This book is a compilation of several other works, pulled together under the umbrella title of The Childen's Christmas Story MEGAPACK®. It includes the complete text of "The Children's Book of Christmas Stories," selected and edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner (originally published in 1913) to which we have added "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus," by L Frank Baum (originally published in 1902), and the poems "'Twas The Night

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This beautiful book, originally published in 1913, contains a collection of seventeen classic fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Stories include, The March King's Daughter, The Snow Queen, The Storks, The Real Princess, The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling and more. These classic tales are accompanied by 16 incredible colour illustrations many beautiful and intricate black and white drawings by W. Heath Robinson. An English cartoonist and illustrator,...

In "The Bell" a mysterious distant bell is heard by the inhabitants of a village. Knowing that it is not coming from the village the inhabitants search the forest, but are unable to find the source. A prince and a poor child eventually come to discover the source of the bell is mysterious, old and from nature itself. A parable about the transience of earthly things.