| Title | : | Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0316913227 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780316913225 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 244 |
| Publication | : | Published October 1, 1995 |
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Reviews
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Collections like these are wonderful.
Whether you want to read through the full collection or you’re simply looking for a single fairy tale, it is up to you. It’s so good for picking and choosing the fairy tales as you see fit. In all honesty, though, I would recommend giving all the fairy tales a read as it is great to be able to sit and read them all in their glory. -
My copy of this book was handed down to me by my Father. It is an ancient book with brown pages and a missing dust jacket. It looks like it was printed in the 40’s but I can’t be sure because the book does not contain a verso.
The first tale is that of the stork and in keeping with the theme of the book is undeniably sweet, but also twisted. There are definitely morals behind each and every tale, but not all the morals are ones I necessarily share. Possibly because of their heavily Christian undertones.
Some of the stories could be very hit and miss but I did enjoy learning about the macarbe truths of stories such as the little mermaid where the witch, instead of just taking the little mermaid’s beautiful singing voice, cuts out her tongue.
The little mermaid is then given a potion which grants her legs but to walk on them feels like being stabbed by a thousand knives and in the end the prince doesn’t even fall in love with her, which of course kills the mermaid (literally).
She gave up her life, her family and her voice just to have him marry someone else. But it’s all meant to be okay because she ends up going to heaven for all she has sacrificed.
It was interesting to see how the stories were originally written and how much Disney changed them completely.
I particularly liked the stories ‘The Nightingale’ and ‘The Daisy’. -
What I expected interesting but won't pick up again...
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Poveștile lui Andersen m-au fermecat în copilărie și continuă să o facă, atât de magice, dar înțelepte; oricând ne simțim lipsiți de speranță ar trebui să ne întoarcem la ele.
Top trei:
- Fetița cu chibrituri;
- Rățușca cea urâtă;
- Prințesa și bobul de mazăre.
"Realitatea întrece adesea chiar și cele mai frumoase vise."
"A călatori înseamnă a trăi." -
Tuổi thơ của tôi đã có Andersen và con trai tôi cũng sẽ thế.
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This collection contains forty of Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tales. It begins with “The Princess and the Pea” and “Thumbelina” and concludes with “The Book of Fairy Tales.” Well-known favorites such as “The Snow Queen,” “The Wild Swans,” “The Steadfast Tin Soldier,” “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” and “The Little Mermaid” are intermingled with less well-known stories such as “The Shadow” and “The Fir-Tree.” Neil Philip’s introduction gives the reader a sense of who Hans Christian Anderson was as a person, and Isabelle Brent’s mosaic-like borders and use of rich colors and gold leaf give the entire book the feel of a medieval illuminated manuscript. The illustrations give the reader the sense of looking through a window into the story, and they perfectly echo the tone of each story, sometimes sweet, sometimes funny, and often tinged with just a bit of sadness. Hans Christian Anderson’s stories were originally published between 1835 and 1837.
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top 3 tales
- the little mermaid
- the ice maiden
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the pros of this book: different stories that vary greatly in theme and entertainment value
the cons of this book: different stories that vary greatly in theme and entertainment value
Not my favorite Andersen compilation, if I'm gonna be honest. I read a falling-apart 1973 version at my grandparents house that I liked much better, which could be because it had two stories in particular that I was very fond of: The Steadfast Tin Soldier and The Little Match Girl. I'm not even sure I read the whole thing, but I do know that I found it a bit more enjoyable than this one.
The fact that this volume doesn't include The Little Match Girl is a tragedy in itself, but what mostly disappointed me is that its main attraction—The Snow Queen—didn't quite live up to the hype for me. There was something about the writing style in that one that I didn't click with. In general, everything else was a mix of meh, interesting, and compelling enough. But personally, this isn't my favorite arrangement.
The Shadow, though? Enough to bump up the rating. Now that's the sort of content I was looking for from the start.
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It was a nice little fairy tale, I liked it.
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Yes, I've read every fairy tale I could get my hands on as a child. That includes Slovenian folks tales which you will never get your hands on.
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Anderson, H.C. (1995). Fairy tales of Hans Christian Anderson. New York: Viking.
Summary:
A compilation of Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales, including: The Princess and the Pea, Thumbelina, The Wild Swans, The Nightingale, The Ugly Duckling, The Snow Queen, The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep, The Shadow, It’s Perfectly True!, Grief, Father’s Always Right, and The Snowman. There is an Introduction by Neil Philip, who details some of Hans Christian Anderson’s life and comments son a few of his works. The illustrations are few and far between- this isn’t a book for primary readers, although could be used as a read-aloud for that age group.
Reviews/Awards:
Horn Book Guide 3/1/1996
Publisher's Weekly 12/11/1995
School Library Journal 12/1/1995
Booklist 11/15/1995
Kirkus Review 10/15/1995
Curriculum Connection:
Use this collection of 12 stories to help 3rd graders write fractured fairy tales in writing.
Grades: K-6 -
This is where so many stories began. The ugly duckling, the princess and the pea, the emperor's new clothes... Stories that I grew up with. They are simple and yet they carry morals and meanings. Some that I agree with and some that I don't. But I find it amazing that such a short story can carry so much meaning. I would love to master such in my own writing!.
I've known for a long time that these stories were originally written by Hans Christian Andersen but this is the first time I have gone and read them. I listened to an audio version over at Librivox, you can listen here:
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„M-ai răsplătit destul, zise privighetoarea. Am smuls lacrimi ochilor tăi, când ți-am cântat întâia oară. Și niciodată n-am să le mai uit; astea-s diamantele care ating sufletul unui cântăreț. Dar acum dormi, ai nevoie de odihnă ca să te întremezi, dormi, eu voi cânta înainte.”
Poveștile lui Andersen sunt cu adevărat frumoase, exceptând faptul că în unele dintre ele apare moartea sub diferite forme, lucru pe care îl găsesc nepotrivit, fie ea și înfățișată drept grădinar. Știu că urmăream cu mult drag animațiile când eram copil și lucrul acesta nu s-a schimbat între timp. -
3.5
I listened to the audio book and I don't know what version I was listening to, but it didn't include some classics I really want to read such as The Little Mermaid and Thumbelina. However, there were some of what I thought were really beautiful stories in my version which I also felt had a spark of originality lacking in a huge number of classic fairy tales. On the other hand, some of the moral undertones of the stories were so outdated that it was difficult to enjoy these. -
Es saprotu, ka bērnu uztvere atšķiras no pieaugušo, un tomēr nav forši uz nakti lasīt kā nogriež galvu līgavainim, iestāda to podiņā un uzziedēja brīīīnišķīgas puķes...
Vai zaldāts apkauj karali ar karalieni, lai ar princesi dzīvotu "ilgi un laimīgi". Ar to laikam jāiemāca bērnam dzīves cikls.. utt
Manējie pēc šīm lūdza palasīt vēl kaut ko citu, lai nenākot murgi :-D -
I love his tales.
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Everyone need to grow up enough to read fairy tales again. And again.
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Some of them sad, some eye-opening, few not-so-bad, couple kinky, several hilarious, one or two just admirable. You've got to now at least a dozen.
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Very dated, and mostly preachy. Dnf.
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The LIFE is just like the collection of fairy tales!
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
~ C.S. Lewis
One definition of what separates us from other species is our ability to construct narratives from our random thoughts, memories, and imaginings.
We are a species of storytellers.
How and why we construct stories remains a mystery, one being explored by biologists, anthropologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, and researchers in semiotics and linguistics. One common thread in the research is that stories help us make sense of our lives.
Fairy tales present simple and complex stories that are still relevant as guides to the archetypal patterns in our unconscious minds.
They are also teaching stories and cautionary tales that speak to the mythopoeic in our psyches, that aspect of our minds that think in metaphor and symbol
While the earliest folk tales emerged from peoples who possessed a less sophisticated notion of the world, their repertoire of emotions and the stories they wove around them were not dissimilar to our own.
Greed, loneliness, jealousy, sorrow — these continue to be our human burden.
The best way to discover the wisdom of fairy tales is to write your own!
Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Breault
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a game, play it; Life is a challenge, Meet it; Life is an opportunity, Capture it.
~ Unknown
Besides,
Everything will be okay in the end. If it is not okay, it's not the end.
~John Lennon
IMAGINE | BELIEVE | ACHIEVE
Heart Believes & Mind Achieves! -
I enjoyed reading the originals of beloved tales such as The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Princess and the Pea, The Little Mermaid and the Tin Soldier.
One of my favorites of the tales that were new to me is probably his foretelling of Americans who would travel by flying steam engines (he imagined airplanes before his time!) and say they had seen Europe in a week.
I also really enjoyed “What One Can Invent.” Here a man wanted to be able to invent something so that he could be a poet. He struggles, believing everything has already been invented. He consults a wise woman who tells him to write down his thoughts “Write that down! Even crumbs are bread.” She temporarily gives him her spectacles and ear trumpet. “Have an ear to hear and the right heart to feel and you will soon invent something.” As a creative myself the wise woman’s words really hit me. Even when it feels as if inspiration has run dry, small steps can lead to creative breakthroughs. -
This children's book was supposed to be read when you are young, adolescent, and an adult. The stories will not change but your perspective will.
This book not just talks about death or heartbreak or really for children. It is more than that. It is accepting death, accepti g heartbreak, facing consequences, and learn things the hard way.
Always listen to elders. They may have nit experience what we have experience right now because of the changing world but there are some cases that we experienced what they have experienced before. -
I still enjoyed reading classic tales like The Emperor’s New Clothes and The Little Match Girl. I quite enjoyed some tales I had never heard before, namely Little Claus and Big Claus. Some of the tales had very religious and at times patriarchal overtones, a symptom of the times, which made them difficult to get through. I did love his focus on nature and his ability to turn toys, animals and flowers into characters.
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Cuentos muy interesantes y divertidos, este autor a hecho muchos de los cuentos más famosos del día de hoy, como La Sirenita, El Nuevo Traje del Emperador, El Soldadito de Plomo, etc... además de que es un clásico y pues como todos los clásicos, aprendes mucho de ellos. Muy buenos cuentos, los recomiendo para gente de todas las edades.
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One of my favourite children’s authors. The issues he writes about are quite real and he doesn’t shy away from that reality even though these stories are meant for young people. This is a breath of fresh air in this glossy, cotton wool new society we now inhabit.
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I enjoyed listening to the stories in the car with my girls on all of our summer outings. Some of the stories were new to me. Some stories were long while others were really short and some of them were very dark. Overall, it was fun to experience a different sort of story (stories) with my girls.
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Me ha parecido un libri maravilloso con muchas historias conocidas de nuestra infancia, por supuesto, la versión original y no la infantil da una imagen más lúgubre a las historias pero así eran realmente los cuentos mágicos de aquella época.
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Elsker H.C. Andersen!
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Read these stories to my 8th graders. They enjoyed many of them. I purchased another edition to this book which had a lot more stories in them.
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many are unexpectedly religious in tone. all are unexpectedly dark when compared to how they have been retold over the centuries.
