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MY GRADE: C
SYNOPSIS: The Little Mermaid is one of the most haunting stories ever written. Its author, Hans Christian Andersen, made the literary fairy tale so much his own that even today no writer has surpassed him.
This collection, with an introduction and fresh new renderings of the tales by Neil Philip, includes not just "The Little Mermaid" but also such favorites as "The Tinderbox," "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," and "The Little Match Girl."
Includes the stories The Tinderbox, Little Ida's Flowers, The Little Mermaid, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Flying Trunk, The Sweethearts, The Bell, The Little Match Girl, The Collar, The Goblin at the Grocer's, In a Thousand Years' Time, Five Peas From the Same Pod, The Beetle, The Toad, Dance, Dance, Dolly Mine!, The Gardener and His Master
MY THOUGHTS: This is a really nice looking book. The full color illustrations are predominantly blue, for some reason, and you can view every single one here. There is at least one full color illustration for each story except there are none at all for The Sweethearts, In a Thousand Years' Time, and Dance, Dance, Dolly Mine!,
The stories I like best are "Little Ida's Flowers." It's really cute. It's about flowers who dance and have parties at night when humans aren't around, and inanimate objects come alive and join in the fun. Someone in the story says that butterflies are really flowers who've jumped off the stems. "The Sweethearts" is funny and is about a top and leather ball, toys that belong to a child, that are stored in a drawer together, get separated, then meet up again years later. There's a silly yet very funny short story called "The Collar", about a shirt collar with quite the personality, an iron, garter, and comb who still has all her teeth. Other good ones are The Little Mermaid, The Little Match Girl, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, and The Emperor's New Clothes. The rest aren't good at all, so I liked 7 out of 17.
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