Hans Christian Andersen: 709 books

In this bleak fairytale, a kind and good-natured learned man on vacation sends his shadow to investigate a balcony across the street. When his shadow never returns, he notices that he has grown a new one and figures all is well.  However, five years later, he meets his original shadow, and it is...

In this parable about the transience of earthly things, a mysterious bell is heard by the inhabitants of a village. They search the forest but are unable to find the source. When a prince and a child eventually discover it, they realize that it is as mysterious and old as nature itself.

El cuento narra la historia de una niña tan pobre que ni siquiera podía comprar zapatos, y por eso andaba siempre descalza. Su madre murió y una anciana, apiadándose de ella, la tomó a su cargo. Y así llegó el día en el que debía hacer la confirmación y le compró unas zapatillas rojas de las que se había encaprichado. Eran muy bonitas, pero guardaban una sorpresa.

Here you will find more than 1500 fairy tales, such as "Aladdin", "Sinbad the Sailor", "The Ugly Ducking", "Little Tin Soldier", "The Little Match Girl", "Blue Beard", "Beauty and the Beast", "Puss in Boots", "The...

The story that was the inspiration for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis and more recently, Frozen by Disney is re-designed in celebration of 50 years of working with Bernadette Watts—one of Europe's most recognized and beloved fairy-tale artists, known in Europe simply as Bernadette....

Imagine a tiny little girl, no bigger than the size of a thumb! Now imagine how strange and scary the world must seem to her. Thumbelina is snatched from her home by a toad, who wished to marry her off to his son. But this is not the end of her misfortune; upon her adventures she meets beetles, a...

Far out in the ocean the water is as blue as the petals of the loveliest cornflower, and as clear as the purest glass. But it is very deep too. It goes down deeper than any anchor rope will go, and many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface...

When Kai is cursed by a magic mirror, he can no longer perceive goodness in anything - not his best friend Gerda, nor the roses in the garden. One wintery evening, he is kidnapped by the wicked Snow Queen and swept away to live for ever in her kingdom of ice. Friendless and shoe-less, Gerda...

“So at last he ran away, frightening the little birds in the hedge as he flew over the palings. “They are afraid of me because I am ugly,” he said. So he closed his eyes, and flew still farther, until he came out on a large moor, inhabited by wild ducks. Here he remained the whole night, feeling...

The Emperor learns about the beautiful nightingale living in his empire. Only a kitchen maid knows of its whereabouts. She leads the court to the forest where the nightingale lives. The nightingale agrees to appear at court, where it remains as the Emperor's favorite. Only, the Emperor is given a...

Fairy Tales illustrated by Spanish painter O. Colavidas : - The Nightingale - The Butterfly - The Ugly Ducking - The Snail and the rose tree - The Brave Tin Soldier - The Princess and the pea - The Emperors new suit - The little Mermaid - What the moon saw

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