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...
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.
I spent some time looking for the edition my grandmother read to me as a child, but I eventually realized that whatever she read from – probably a collection of Andersen's stories – had no pictures. They were all in my mind. This astonishes me now, because I can see it all: the girl's blue and black...
I'm a big HC Andersen fan, but this just isn't a favorite. I personally love tragic and disturbing so I'm really not sure what the disconnect is. But even though it's not a personal hit I would still recommend it for sharing with children who have an appreciation for melodrama. This is one of tho...
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