H. C. Andersen

Princess Anna and her friends find a big snowman and a little snowman, which sparks a discovery of other pairs of opposites.

Contains forty-seven fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, including "The Little Match Girl," "The Snow Queen," "The Emperor's New Clothes," and "The Tinderbox."

A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves that she is a real princess.

An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.

Ariel is a fun-loving and mischievous mermaid who is enchanted with all things human. Disregarding her father's order to stay away from the world above the sea, she swims to the surface and, in a raging storm, rescues Prince Eric, the man of her dreams. Determined to be human, she strikes a bargain with the devious sea witch, Ursula, and trades her fins and beautiful voice for legs. With her best friend Flounder, and her reluctant chaperon Sebastian...

The wares of the poor little match girl illuminate her cold world, bringing some beauty to her brief, tragic life.

"In this reinvention of Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale, a little mermaid trades her voice for legs and makes a new friend on land, but must return to the sea to save her family"--

An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan. Includes reading activities.

An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.

When Gerda and her mother take in the penniless street urchin, Kay, powerful forces emerge that will take both children on a magical journey and test their friendship to the extreme. One cold winter night, a splinter of ice pierces Kay's heart and makes him angry and unhappy. He soon becomes enchanted by the Snow Queen and is taken to her palace in the frozen North. Gerda decides that she must do whatever she can to rescue her friend.