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o Illustrated version - Includes unique original illustrations relevant to the book
o Table of contents with links is included in this version
CONTENTS:

THE FIR TREE
LITTLE TUK
THE UGLY DUCKLING
LITTLE IDA'S FLOWERS
THE STEADFAST TIN SOLDIER
LITTLE THUMBELINA
SUNSHINE STORIES
THE DARNING-NEEDLE
THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL
THE LOVING PAIR
THE LEAPING MATCH
TH... More

o Illustrated version - Includes unique original illustrations relevant to the book
o Table of contents with links is included in this version
CONTENTS:

THE FIR TREE
LITTLE TUK
THE UGLY DUCKLING
LITTLE IDA'S FLOWERS
THE STEADFAST TIN SOLDIER
LITTLE THUMBELINA
SUNSHINE STORIES
THE DARNING-NEEDLE
THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL
THE LOVING PAIR
THE LEAPING MATCH
THE HAPPY FAMILY
THE GREENIES
OLE-LUK-OIE, THE DREAM GOD
THE MONEY BOX
ELDER-TREE MOTHER
THE SNOW QUEEN
THE ROSES AND THE SPARROWS
THE OLD HOUSE
THE CONCEITED APPLE BRANCH
The Hans Andersen Fairy Tales will be read in schools and homes as long as there are children who love to read. As a story-teller for children the author has no rival in power to enlist the imagination and carry it along natural, healthful lines. The power of his tales to charm and elevate runs like a living thread through whatever he writes. In the two books in which they are here presented they have met the tests and held an undiminishing popularity among the best children's books. They are recognized as standards, and as juvenile writings come to be more carefully standardized, their place in permanent literature will grow wider and more secure. A few children's authors will be ranked among the Immortals, and Hans Andersen is one of them.

Denmark and Finland supplied the natural background for the quaint fancies and growing genius of their gifted son, who was story-teller, playwright, and poet in one. Love of nature, love of country, fellow-feeling with life in everything, and a wonderful gift for investing everything with life wrought together to produce in him a character whose spell is in all his writings. "The Story of My Life" is perhaps the most thrilling of all of them. Recognized in courts of kings and castles of nobles, he recited his little stories with the same simplicity by which he had made them familiar in cottages of the peasantry, and endeared himself alike to all who listened. These attributes, while they do not account for his genius, help us to unravel the charm of it. The simplest of the stories meet Ruskin's requirement for a child's story-they are sweet and sad.

From most writers who have contributed largely to children's literature only a few selected gems are likely to gain permanence. With Andersen the case is different. While there are such gems, the greater value lies in taking these stories as a type of literature and living in it a while, through the power of cumulative reading. It is not too much to say that there is a temper and spirit in Andersen which is all his own-a simple philosophy which continuous reading is sure to impart. For this reason these are good books for a child to own; an occasional re-reading will inspire in him a healthy, normal taste in reading. Many of the stories are of value to read to very young children. They guide an exuberant imagination along natural channels.

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