Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Ricki Klages, Illustrator, Linnea Gentry, Author Harbinger House $9.95 (45p) ISBN 978-0-943173-13-9
In a stirring retelling complemented by vivid watercolors, the Andersen fairy tale depicts Helga's growth to womanhood and return to her native land. All ages. (Apr.)
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Deborah Hahn, Illustrator Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-10052-0
It's probably the pinnacle of cheek to revise the works of a master like Andersen, but author/artist Hahn takes the gamble and wins. In her version, ``Hans'' narrates while a motley assortment of players (children, pigs and pets)--captured in...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Meilo So, Illustrator, Meilo So, Author Bradbury Press $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-786045-0
Much of the elegance and subtlety of Andersen's classic tale have been squeezed out of this greatly abridged retelling. Retaining only the skeleton of the original plot, the story stumbles over choppy, prosaic phrasing: ``One day a new toy arrived...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Roberta Angaramo, Illustrator , illus. by Roberta Angaramo. Purple Bear $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-933327-09-9
The translation of Andersen's Danish text (copyright page states simply that this is adapted from W. Angeldorff's translation) may be dense and formal, but Italian artist Angaramo's full-bleed spreads are anything but. Novel visual...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Rachel Isadora, Retold by, Rachel Isadora, Illustrator . Putnam $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-25029-3
Isadora’s latest interpretation of a fairy tale remains mostly loyal to the story line, but its sensual, mosaiclike collages create depth and texture, evoking the essence of an African savanna. The “large and clumsy” duckling,...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Jerry Pinkney, Adapted by, Jerry Pinkney, Illustrator , illus. by Jerry Pinkney. Penguin Putnam/Fogelman $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2464-8
Pinkney (The Ugly Duckling) sets this retelling of Andersen's classic tale in Morocco instead of the original China, inspiring a score of lush illustrations and a fresh, piquant narrative. The tale of a king who learns humility from a kitchen...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Jerry Pinkney, Adapted by, Jerry Pinkney, Illustrator Phyllis Fogelman Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2314-6
A faithful retelling of a classic tale, dramatic snow-speckled street scenes and luxuriantly thick pages all earmark this picture book as a volume to be cherished. Pinkney (Going Home) transports the eponymous protagonist from Andersen's European...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Sucie Stevenson, Author, Sucie Stevenson, Illustrator Doubleday Books for Young Readers $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-385-41375-6
Even in the tropics, it appears, love conquers all: Stevenson cleverly sets her jaunty retelling on a balmy South Sea isle. From that idyllic spot a peripatetic prince journeys quite literally to the ends of the earth in his quest for a true...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Naomi Lewis, Translator, Angela Barrett, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1281-8
In a starred review, PW called this a ""witty new edition, set in 1913. The emperor's pursuit of fashion becomes such frivolous fun that he is quite a likable fool especially when his tan lines are showing."" Ages 6-9. (Nov.)
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Naomi Lewis, Translator, Angela Barrett, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0119-5
Dogs--curious and well groomed, playful and preening--are the vain emperor's most important fashion accessory in this witty new edition of Andersen's tale. Barrett, who also illustrated Lewis's translation of The Snow Queen, shows her canine...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Barry Moser, Author, Barry Moser, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $14.95 (29p) ISBN 978-0-316-03938-3
``Dismayed that tales of wonder and magic are set in foreign lands and distant times,'' Moser has chosen to ignore all but the skeletal plot of Andersen's original story and to rewrite it making use of American characters and settings and a...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Kveta Pacovska, Illustrator, Anthea Bell, Translator , illus. by Kveta Pacovská, trans. by Anthea Bell. Penguin/Minedition $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-698-40027-6
Bell (The Little Mermaid
) renders Andersen's story with painful vividness, resisting the urge to draw attention to her own prose. Instead Pacovská's stark expressionist plates dominate the pages. An éminence grise among...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Andrew Matthews, Author, Alan Snow, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $18.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-531-05463-5
Matthews ( Dr. Monsoon's Amazing Finishing Academy ) and Snow recast 11 selections from the Andersen canon in this unspectacular volume. While they include such sweetmeats as ``The Wild Swans,'' in which a princess rescues her brothers from a queen's
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Natacha Godeau, trans. from the French by Susan Allen-Maurin, illus. by Giorgio Baroni. Auzou (Consortium, dist.), $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-2-7338-2530-3
Italian illustrator Baroni’s background in character design brings a fantasy aesthetic to Godeau’s retelling of this Andersen fairy tale. Kay and Gerda are drawn as older children with lean features and blousy peasant clothing; Gerda’s hair often...
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JooHee Yoon. Enchanted Lion (Consortium, dist.), $22.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-59270-202-2
In a visually striking and fittingly dark interpretation of a tragic fairy tale, a one-legged tin soldier falls in love with a paper ballerina. After falling from a window, the soldier begins a circuitous journey, eventually swallowed by a fish....
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Michael Hague, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1010-7
No matter how often it's retold, no matter how many illustrators tackle it, Andersen's classic tale of the lovelorn mermaid never grows stale. Unlike the sanitized Disney version, the original isn't particularly cheerful: the mermaid loses not only...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Michael Hague, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $18.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7239-6
Michael Hague illustrates three collections of time-proven tales. Originally published in 1910, Old Mother West Wind by Thornton W. Burgess introduces a group of enchanting woodland creatures, the Merry Little Breezes, Reddy Fox and Tommy Trout...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Maria Tatar, Editor, Julie K. Allen, Translator . Norton $35 (449p) ISBN 978-0-393-06081-2
Andersen, creator of “The Princess and the Pea” and “The Ugly Duckling,” receives treasury treatment in this latest entry in Norton's series of annotated classics, replete with margin notes attentive to historical...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Rachel Isadora, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-22007-4
With their swirling snowflakes and meticulous period details, Isadora's paintings capture the essence of Andersen's story of a forlorn heroine. Ages 4-8. (Aug.)
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Rachel Isadora, Illustrator, Rachel Isadora, Author Putnam Publishing Group $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22813-1
Isadora's (Isadora Dances) haunting retelling of this classic tale leaves Disney's cotton-candy version far behind. Hewing faithfully to the darker themes of Andersen's original, Isadora relates the bittersweet story of the little mermaid who falls...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Bernadette Watts, Illustrator, Anthea Bell, Adapted by Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0485-4
In one of Andersen's most beautiful stories, the boy Kay leaves his companion Gerda to go far north with the evil, cold-hearted Snow Queen. Gerda goes in search of Kay, encountering many adventures, but eventually finds the boy and melts the ice in...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Virginia Lee Burton, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (44p) ISBN 978-0-618-34421-5
Virginia Lee Burton (best known for her Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel) reimagines Hans Christian Andersen's ageless story of over-the-top vanity in The Emperor's New Clothes. Burton's 1949 illustrations, re-photographed for this reissue,...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Virginia Lee Burton, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $6.95 (44p) ISBN 978-0-618-34420-8
Virginia Lee Burton (best known for her Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel) reimagines Hans Christian Andersen's ageless story of over-the-top vanity in The Emperor's New Clothes. Burton's 1949 illustrations, re-photographed for this reissue,...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Author, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Retold by , retold by Kevin Crossley-Holland, illus. by Meilo So. Knopf $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-81319-1
Crossley-Holland (Storm) and So (The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury) bring out all the luster of Andersen's classic tale in this beguiling book. The familiar sequence of events unfolds in a courtly retelling shot through with...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, John A. Rowe, Author, John Rowe, Illustrator Penguin Young Readers Group $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-698-40000-9
John Alfred Rowe (Monkey Trouble) takes his accomplished paintbrush to Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes. The rosy cheeked, rotund potentate is attended to by an elite troupe of mime-ish monkeys, their noses as high as their yellow
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Anthea Bell, Translator, Eve Tharlet, Illustrator Picture Book Studio Ltd $13.95 (25p) ISBN 978-0-88708-052-4
Long before there were lie detectors, there was the great pea test: the real princess's genteel character is not numbed by 20 mattresses and 20 eiderdown quilts. She isn't lying when she says she felt ""something so hard that I'm black and blue all...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Anthea Bell, Translator, Lisbeth Zwerger, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $19.95 (65p) ISBN 978-0-88708-182-8
Zwerger, who has illustrated several Andersen tales as individual picture books, here presents an oversized storybook collection of eight, ranging from the readily familiar (``The Emperor's New Clothes''; ``The Princess and the Pea'') to others that
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Rachel Isadora, Author, Rachel Isadora, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-21336-6
Andersen's tale about a little girl who's afraid to go home because she hasn't sold enough matches is a classic. The little girl, bareheaded and barefoot, curls up in a corner, lighting match after match to warm herself. In the flames she sees...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Demi, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-257428-4
Luminescent paintings accompany a faithful retelling of Andersen's popular story. Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Fred Marcellino, Illustrator, Tor Seidler, Photographer Alfred A. Knopf $14.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-06-205000-7
The masterful pastel illustrations that distinguished the artist's Caldecott Honor-winning Puss in Boots transform yet another timeless tale into a modern classic. This graceful retelling of Andersen's touching story of true love between a malformed
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Troy Howell, Author, Troy Howell, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $15.95 (34p) ISBN 978-0-399-22158-3
If ever an artist dove straight to the heart of a familiar and much-loved fairy tale, Howell has done so in this atmospheric retelling of the classic tale of the downtrodden ``duckling'' who discovers he's actually a swan. This accomplished artist's
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, D. Duntze, Author, H. Andersen, Author NorthSouth $7.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55858-381-8
Intricate patterns and dreamy pastel hues mark Duntze's luxuriant ilustrations for this classic tale. Ages 3-6. (May)
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, D. Duntze, Author, H. Andersen, Author NorthSouth $7.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55858-689-5
Duntze embroiders the classic story with exquisite visual details; her lanky, angular people with a jaundiced glow add a playfully sinister note. Ages 5-8. (Apr.)
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, P. J. Lynch, Illustrator, Caroline Peachey, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-200874-1
Lynch (Melisande; The Steadfast Tin Soldier) brings exquisite grace and elegance to his illustrations of Andersen's classic story of the power of love to heal even the most hardened and icy heart. The design is impressive: delicate black lines frame
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Robert Byrd, Illustrator, Riki Levinson, With Dutton Books $14.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-44611-8
Taking full advantage of the intrinsic humor of Andersen's tale, Byrd has created busy, exuberant pictures featuring a menagerie of animals. The wonderfully foppish emperor is a stately lion, who wears a gold earring and sports costumes of dazzling...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Brad Sneed, Author, Brad Sneed, Illustrator Dial Books $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2812-7
The larger-than-life adventures (relatively speaking) of Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina unfold in Brad Sneed's illustrations. Tiny Thumbelina endures abductions by frogs, a beetle, a mouse and a mole before finding her soul mate. Sneed's...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Diana Crone Frank, Selected by, Jeffrey Frank, Selected by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $30 (293p) ISBN 978-0-618-22456-2
Collections of children's classics pay homage to the best of children's literature, folk and fairy tales. Timeless tales continue to thrill each new generation in The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen: A New Translation from the Danish, selected
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Hans Christian Andersen, illus. by Bagram Ibatoulline. Harper, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-220950-4
This Andersen tale, one of the few with a genuinely happy ending, provides a showcase for Ibatoulline’s dazzling gifts. The story of Kai’s enchantment and Gerda’s long search to rescue him offers the artist a bouquet of exotic scenes to bring to...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Angela Barrett, Illustrator, Naomi Lewis, With Bedrick $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87226-232-4
Published in 1984, Lewis's stylish retelling of the classic Andersen tale of a sister's devotion marked Barrett's debut as an illustrator. Ages 6-12. (June)
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Joel Stewart, Illustrator, Naomi Lewis, Translator Candlewick Press (MA) $22.99 (207p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2515-3
A handful of fall books invite youngsters to gather 'round. Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, trans. by Naomi Lewis, illus. by Joel Stewart, reads like an ode to the writer himself. Lewis gives readers a brief history of the author's life and career,
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Stephen Mitchell, Retold by, Steve Johnson, Illustrator , retold by Stephen Mitchell, illus. by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher. Candlewick $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2159-9
In this faithful retelling, Mitchell embraces Andersen's classic but abridges the melancholy Dane's crueler jabs. As in the original, this opens on a bucolic moat where a patient duck warms her nest “under the burdock leaves”...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Deborah Hautzig, Author, Kaarina Kaila, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $12 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-83446-5
A wicked stepmother has cast the beautiful princess Elisa out of the palace and turned Elisa's 11 brothers into swans. So begins this lengthy, sentimental retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's well-loved tale. In elaborate particulars Hautzig...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Warick Hutton, Illustrator Margaret K. McElderry Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-50458-7
Andersen's mysterious tale of the common soldier who ends up marrying a princess with the help of three unusual messengers of fate is illustrated with Hutton's beautifully rendered pen-and-watercolor drawings. The soldier kills a witch because she...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Lisbeth Zwerger, Illustrator , illus. by Lisbeth Zwerger, trans. from the Danish by Anthea Bell. Penguin/ Mineditions $15.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-698-40001-6
As she has with previous interpretations of classics, Zwerger (Alice in Wonderland
) works from Bell's faithful translation of Andersen's text, with no happily ever after. Here the mermaid must watch her beloved prince marry another, knowing
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Lisbeth Zwerger, Illustrator, Anthea Bell, Translator Michael Neugebauer Book $19.95 (104p) ISBN 978-0-7358-1394-6
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, edited and illus. by Lisbeth Zwerger, trans. by Anthea Bell, originally published in 1991, includes three additional stories, and its new design matches Zwerger's Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz. The...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Stephen Mitchell, Author, Stephen Mitchell, Retold by , retold by Stephen Mitchell, illus. by Bagram Ibatoulline. Candlewick $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1521-5
The exquisite jacket—which features delicate red lettering on a damask-patterned gold background and a cutout revealing a painting of a nightingale—sets up high expectations, and both Mitchell (The Frog Prince) and Ibatoulline (Crossing
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Charles Santore, Author, Charles Santore, Illustrator Gramercy Books $14 (1p) ISBN 978-0-517-06495-5
If the entries in Stories from Hans Christian Andersen (see review above) dilute the headiness of their models, this volume presents a close-to-pristine translation of one of Andersen's most popular works along with highly charged and rather adult...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, S. T. Mendelson, Author, Steve Mendelson, Illustrator Stewart, Tabori, & Chang $7.5 (1p) ISBN 978-1-55670-232-7
This fresh rendering of Andersen's oft-told tale wittily underlines the ``unforgivably silly'' nature of the duped emperor and his fawning court. Mendelson's ( Stupid Emilien ) spare text twinkles with a mischievous irony (``Once upon a time there...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Erik Blegvad, Translator, Erik Blegvad, Illustrator Margaret K. McElderry Books $19.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-689-50584-3
Although Blegvad ( Anna Banana and Me ) has rounded up a few of the usual suspects (``The Princess on the Pea''; ``The Emperor's New Clothes''), the bulk of this unique collection reprises lesser knowns among Andersen's 156 fairy tales. Andersen's...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Arlene Graston, Illustrator, Erik Christian Haugaard, Translator Doubleday Books for Young Readers $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-385-32251-5
In this spare and lilting unabridged translation of the classic tale, the tiny girl's pleasant life is interrupted when she is stolen in sleep by an ugly matron-toad who seeks a wife for her son. A series of misadventures with goliath-like creatures-
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Starbright Foundation, Author, Starbright Foundation, Editor Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $27.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-15-100109-5
For this star-studded, collaborative interpretation of the egocentric emperor's sober unveiling, the cast of characters expands to include the perspectives of an imperial physician (as told by Dr. Ruth Westheimer) and a court jester (who else but...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Isabelle Brent, Illustrator, Neil Philip, Introduction by Viking Children's Books $19.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-670-85930-6
Gilded illustrations by Isabelle Brent add sparkle to Viking's Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. Old favorites such as ``The Ugly Duckling'' and ``The Snow Queen'' are the mainstay of this 12-story collection, but older readers already...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Eva Le Gallienne, Translator, Arieh Zeldich, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (117p) ISBN 978-0-06-023694-6
Le Gallienne invests her latest translation of Andersen's classics with the lyricism, humor and animation that grace her versions of The Nightingale, The Little Mermaid and Seven Tales. Zeldich's paintings glow with colors that emphasize the...
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Jerry Pinkney, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-688-15932-0
Pinkney's (Rikki-Tikki-Tavi) supple, exquisitely detailed watercolors provide a handsome foil to his graceful adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen classic. This ""duckling"" is teased unmercifully by his apparent siblings but loved by the...
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Naomi Lewis, Author, Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Angela Barrett, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-56402-215-8
Lewis's commanding translation of this Andersen classic rings with nobility even as it maintains a colloquial jauntiness. The famously gripping narrative, of tender-hearted Gerda's epic quest to rescue her friend Kay from the frozen realm of the...
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Jerry Pinkney, Author, Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Jerry Pinkney, Illustrator , illus. by Jerry Pinkney. Puffin $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-230188-3
"In this faithful retelling of the classic tale, Pinkney transports the heroine from Andersen's European setting to the bustling city streets and crowded tenements of early 1920s America," said PW
in a starred review. "Pinkney'
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Marianna Mayer, Author, Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Thomas Locker, Illustrator MacMillan Publishing Company $15.95 (39p) ISBN 978-0-02-765130-0
Mayer's version of this story isn't necessarily better for its elaborate plot and long-winded road toward that familiar resolution. This time the duckling and his mother are warned by a Peking duck in the farmyard that they may be in for a surprise.
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Anne F. Rockwell, Author, Hans Christian Andersen, Author HarperCollins Publishers $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-443142-2
Colorful pictures portray the classic story. Ages 4-8. (July)
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Diane Goode, Author, Hans Christian Andersen, Author Scholastic $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-38360-8
What is perhaps the most famous swindle in children's books receives a prehistoric makeover in this visually wry retelling. Using the palace of Versailles as a backdrop, Goode (Mama's Perfect Present) whips up an ensemble of pompadoured and powdered
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Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Jen Corace. Abrams, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4197-0432-1
Teaming up for another fairy tale retelling, following Hansel and Gretel (2008), Corace and Rylant breathe life into Hans Christian Andersen's story of a one-legged tin soldier who falls in love with a dancing doll. She's as delicate as he is...
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Lilian Moore, Author, Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Daniel San Souci, Illustrator Scholastic $12.95 (46p) ISBN 978-0-590-40957-5
The simplified telling here may be more palatable to younger readers, but it flattens the story, making what was poetic stiff and what was funny too protracted. But San Souci's illustrations rescue the edition, in the colors of a faded, favorite...
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Peggy Thomson, Author, Hans Christian Andersen, Author, James Warhola, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-70546-6
Although Warhola's artwork is well designed and sometimes delightfully quirky, this retelling of Andersen's familiar story is not nearly as effective as Barry Moser's recent, more unified and distinctive version. Warhola's comedic talents are...
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Hans Christian Andersen, trans. from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra, illus. by Helen Crawford-White. Pushkin, $9.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-78269-249-2
This slim volume holds both Andersen’s much-read tale of a mermaid who sacrifices her voice for a chance to win the human prince she loves and the story of a “true-hearted” tin soldier with one leg who falls in love with a paper ballerina. Both...
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Alexander Afanasyev et al., illus. by Scott Plumbe. Floris, $22.95 (88p) ISBN 978-1-78250-671-3
Highly detailed, painterly illustrations anchor this collection of seven European and Russian fairy tales, which combines well-known classics, including “Hansel and Gretel” and “Beauty and the Beast,” with lesser-known works such as “The Three...
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