Andersen's Fairy Tales Author:Hans Christian Andersen, Mrs. E.V. Lucas (Translator), Mrs. H.B. Paull (Translator) 29 stories including: — The Garden of Paradise — Little Tiny The Fir Tree — The Storks — Little Ida's Flowers — The Red Shoes — The Ugly Ducking — The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf — The Bottle Neck — The Snow Queen — The Marsh King's Daughter — The Wild Swans — Great Claus and Little Claus — The Shepheress and the Sweep — The Bell — The Angel — The Nightingale — Holg... more »er the Dane
Fairy tales are essential to childhood. They are imagination that whispers to us, takes us on journeys, and connects us to others. They also are about as gentle a way of exposing a child to the horrors of this world, as there is.