A princess has eleven brothers. The twelve siblings live happily and well, until their father decides to remarry. Their new stepmother is a wicked woman, and she turns all the brothers into swans a…
By the time rumor has changed and spread the story one lost feather becomes five lovesick hens who have plucked out all their feathers. It's absolutely true! say the hens to the owls. And it is re…
Following on the brilliant success of The Little Match Girl and his fourth Caldecott Honor Book, The Ugly Duckling, Jerry Pinkney brings us another enchanting adaptation of a Hans Christian Anderse…
Hans Christian Andersen, the Danish storyteller whose fairy tales are known all over the world, was also a gifted artist. He made hundreds, perhaps thousands, of paper cuttings of swans, clowns, to…
Drawing from interviews with survivors and from meticulous research, a stirring chronicle of the bravery and dedication of the Danish Resistance during World War II discusses how many of Denmark's …