Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
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Average rating3.3
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Ratings3
Average rating3.3
A beautiful clothbound hardback gift edition of the world's most celebrate fairy tales. Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers. - Hans Christian Andersen. A delightful selection of stories from Hans Christian Andersen, translated by the eminent writer and critic, Naomi Lewis. All the best-known and most-loved stories are included - 'Thumbelina', 'The Snow Queen', 'The Emperor's New Clothes' etc, as well as the less familiar - 'The Goblin at the Grocer's' and 'Dance, Dolly, Dance'. Puffin Clothbound Classics is a series of much-loved stories from classic children's literature, brought together by Puffin Books in beautiful hardback volumes.
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It is a partial love/not love relationship with this book. We read this illustrated version through Sonlight P3/4 and overall I am not really a fan of these illustrations however I did like the illustrations of Thumbelina. My daughter definitely enjoys this book and asks for it often. Some of these tales were entirely new to me and still others were a very different version from my memory. The main drop in the stars rating for me was the over abundant use of the word “stupid”. In my childhood (and my husband concurs) the Emperor was made to look a fool not stupid. While the word change may not bother some it bothers me.
