The Little Match Girl
This classic retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s sad tale of “The Little Match Girl” comes to life once more through the artwork of Stanley F. Gilmore. Jr. This wonderful story is an ageless chronicle of a young girl struggling to stay warm on New Year’s Eve using the very matches she is...
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This classic retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s sad tale of “The Little Match Girl” comes to life once more through the artwork of Stanley F. Gilmore. Jr. This wonderful story is an ageless chronicle of a young girl struggling to stay warm on New Year’s Eve using the very matches she is suppose to be selling to earn money for her family. With each strike of a match the little girl sees wonderful things in the flames which warm both her heart and soul. Old Line Publishing is proud to bring our young readers yet another wonderful book as part of our Classic Christmas Collection. Enjoy the other books in our Classic Christmas Collection including Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”, Clement C. Moores’ “T’was the Night Before Christmas” and “The Birth of Christ” as written in the Gospel of Luke. Share the gift of reading with your young ones this holiday season.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781937004118 (1937004112)
Publish date: December 7th 2010
Publisher: Old Line Publishing, LLC
Pages no: 30
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Childrens,
Classics,
Literature,
European Literature,
Fairy Tales,
Picture Books,
Short Stories,
Holiday,
Christmas,
Danish
It is cold.New Year's Eve.A small, poor girl tries to sell matches in the street.Already shivering from cold and early hypothermia. Afraid to go home because her father will beat her for not selling any matches...There is no mother anymore.All of the sudden something happen...This is one the most be...
One of the saddest story I have ever read.
This is one of the stories that made me cry both as a child and as a teenager and it'll probably still make me cry 40 years from now. I don't know why, for me, this story is filled with sadness. The end of it never made me happy, I wasn't able to see the "thrilling escape", as some call it, from thi...
I simply cannot bring myself to rate this.It's one of those bedtime stories from my childhood, that were read to me repeatedly, and that stayed carved in my memory for good.Only, this particular one is kind of an issue for me.When you're a kid - three or four years old - you're bound to enjoy the nu...
One of the saddest tales out there, but I have such wonderful memories of my grandpa reading this on Christmas Eve at my house. It was a yearly tradition and one that I miss terribly. This story brings me great comfort, as it revives those memories.
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