Hans Christian Andersen: The Journey of His LIfe
by:
Heinz Janisch (author)
Maja Kateslic (illustrator)
“If you like, I’ll tell you the story of a boy who learned to fly.” Through an enchanted conversation with a young girl in a horse-drawn coach, Hans Christian Andersen shares his life’s struggles, dreams, and triumphs—whose threads can be found woven into his greatest stories. He tells her about...
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“If you like, I’ll tell you the story of a boy who learned to fly.”
Through an enchanted conversation with a young girl in a horse-drawn coach, Hans Christian Andersen shares his life’s struggles, dreams, and triumphs—whose threads can be found woven into his greatest stories. He tells her about the “fairy tale of his life” and how the son of a shoemaker became a celebrated writer.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780735843882 (0735843882)
Publish date: 2020-09-01
Publisher: Northsouth Books
Pages no: 48
Edition language: English
Disclaimer: Arc via Netgalley Janisch and Kastelic’s children’s book about the life Hans Christian Andersen is well done and beautifully illustrated. Janisch structures the story as one that Andersen himself is telling to a young girl as they ride to Copenhagen together in a carriage. The biograph...