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Type of bind: Hardcover
EAN num: 9780762413935
ISBN number: 076241393X
Label: Running Press Kids
Manufacturer: Running Press Kids
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 56
Printing Date: August 25, 2002
Publishing house: Running Press Kids
Age index: Ages 4-8
Sale Popularity Level: 29090
Studio: Running Press Kids
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Award-winning English illustrator Christian Birmingham--one of the rising stars of children's illustration--brings eight time-honored fairy tales to life in dazzling, full-colour artwork for this charming collection. Sure to become a treasured part of any childhood library, this sumptuously illustrated book includes the read-aloud favorites The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid, The Nightingale, and The Princess and the Pea.
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This book is a classic and hard to find. I gave it to a friend who loves to read to her grandkids.
I think we need to go retro in some of our reading.
Lois
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I love Andersen's fairy tales, and was disappointed to find that, though the illustrations are lovely, this is only an edited selection of a few tales. It is suitable as a gift for a child, but not for anyone seriously interested in Andersen's original work.
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The glorious adventures found in Andersen's book gave my imagination
a scaffold to climb. I still remember, at four, sitting near my mother on the sofa, looking at the full-colour pictures, as she read about Thumbelina, the Tinder Box, and the Three Billy Goats Gruff. Does it get any better than that?
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I have grown up loving fairy tales, and I collect books of fairy tales. I happened to be at [the store] one day, sometime before Christmas, and I noticed Christian Birmingham's book of Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol". I looked at it for a while, surprised that I haven't seen any of this illustrator's previous work. I continued to look around and I found "The Classic Treasury Of Hans Christian Andersen". I looked at it, and was amazed at how magical and beautiful the illustrations were. All of the illustrations in this book capture the timeless fairy tales of Andersen perfectly. I was once again reunited with some of the stories I grew up loving like "The Little Mermaid", "The Little Match Girl", among others.
The luminous illustrations complement the grey and white drawings so that it's just the right amount of artwork to capture pivotal scenes from the stories without overdoing it. I love the colour illustrations of Thumblina flying through the air with her bird friend, the grey and white drawing of the Little Mermaid saving the prince from drowning, the colour illustration of the nightingale signing on the branch of blossoms as the captivated people watch it, and the grey and white drawing of the Little Match Girl being taken to Heaven by her Grandmother. These are truly beautiful stories brought to life by an outstanding illustrator. Although you would expect all fairy tales to have perfectly happy endings, many of Andersen's do not. It is up to the reader to decide if the endings are happy or not. I would say they are bittersweet, but beautiful just the same. Anyone who is looking for an excellent book of these stories, or just for a good picture book, I HIGHLY recommend this!!!
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