it was ok, i had really high expectations i think because the adaptions of these stories that i know and love are so detailed and elaborate and this are really just basic outlines which i guess is kind of the point when writing a story for little children, i guess i just didn't know they were tar...
2.5 starsI found myself enjoying very few of the stories. The stories I did enjoy are limited to: The Little Mermaid, The Snow Queen, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Little Match girl. These also happen to be Hans Christian Anderson's most enduring and recognisable stories and perhaps that is w...
Finally finished reading the book. I learned a lot of lessons in the stories. But I didn't like the last story, The Gate Key. Well, it was predictable and frankly, I don't find plots as such pleasing or even worth the time. But overall, I like reading all the tales of Andersen. Each had it's way ...
It's a good idea to go back and reread fairy tales as an adult, because they tend to have dimensions that go over a child's head, or different endings that were bowdlerised for the children's edition. Many of them are just good stories, and fantastic in a way that modern literature rarely is. Thi...
Enjoyable fairytales ranging from The Little Mermaid to The Ugly Duckling. The stories are told with more meaning than current fairytales. Be good and be rewarded or be bad and receive some form of wrath. The fairytales varied in range but overall they were lovely; even the sad ones. There wa...
This book was a gift from a relative who had travelled to Denmark, to my ill sister when she was 8 years old in 1960. I was unpleasantly surprised when I finally dusted it off and sat down to read the tales written by this master story-teller. Even the "good" stories that I knew and liked from ...
The Ugly Duckling gives off the most important message of any children's book: no matter what other people think, you are beautiful. This is a message any child needs to hear. In the book, one duckling looks different than all the rest, so it is made fun of. The duckling starts to believe that th...
Reading with a more matured mind, I understand the story with more than just "beauty is skin deep," eyes. As a child, I thought it was all about learning not to treat someone based on their physical (which is also great) but I see more of how the world works. The story is a great lesson on bully...
The classic Fairytales, so cleverly written and amusingly told that you can't help but love them. I've always adored collections of short stories and these are perfect! There is the right balance of humour and sadness, tales of morality told in the most captivating manner. The kinds of stories th...
I read Hans Christian Andersen on my iPad, Macsimus Tango. That means that the book listed here isn't the exact book that I read since I read Gutenberg's version, which is a collection of only a few dozen of the fairy tales. I put this book on my virtual bookshelf because this is the book that ...