A biography of the famous Danish writer of fairy tales, interspersed with excerpts from his stories.

Alyssa, a wood-cutter's daughter, gets lost during a storm and asks for shelter at the King's winter palace, where she takes a job as companion to the 11-year-old twin princesses. As she works at learning her new job, she begins to fall in love with the prince. But when she discovers a plot to overthrow the kingdom, she must use all her learning to save her new-found family.

A brief biography of the 19th-century Danish author of many well-known fairy tales, which stresses the value of personal fantasies and imagination.

Originally published in 1924, this collection The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen is illustrated with the magnificent Art Nouveau color illustrations of Kay Nielsen. It was a project that took Nielsen twelve years to complete, and his illustrations perfectly capture the other-worldly spirit of Andersen's subject matter. It includes such well-known and loved tales as "The Snow Queen," "The Real Princess," "The Hardy Tin Soldier" and "The Nightingale."...

Abby is feeling slighted by not being chosen festival leader at school, and her brother Jonah thinks that a trip through the magic mirror is just what she needs-- but when they find themselves in a strange version of the Princess and the pea, and Abby is tagged as the princess, who will be the next ruler of the Kingdom of Bog (which is very damp and infested with alligators), she is not so much complimented as desperate to find an alternate princess,...

A particularly tender-hearted prince, after failing to find a suitable princess to be his bride, returns home and soon meets a girl in rags who, through the efforts of the Queen, proves that she is just as sensitive.

A little sea princess, longing to be human, trades her mermaid's tail for legs to win the love of a prince.

Presents retellings of four Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales, including the title work about a mermaid who falls in love with a charming--though human--prince.

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.