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21) El patito feo
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Había una vez una pata que empollaba sus huevos.
Eran siete, y les faltaba muy poco para romper el cascarón. Un día notó algo extraño, algo nuevo: un octavo huevo, un poco más grande que los demás. ¿Cómo habría llegado allí?
"No tengo tiempo de pensar ahora en esto" dijo la pata, y siguió empollando".
La colección Cuentos de bolsillo reúne los cuentos y fábulas de toda la vida relatados con una visión muy actual y acompañados por...
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An iconic collection of Christmas fairy tales from the Danish master of storytelling Hans Christian Andersen including some of his best work: The Old House, The Drop of Water, The Happy Family, The Story of a Mother, The False Collar, The Shadow, The Old Street-lamp, The Dream of Little Tuk, The Naughty Boy, The Two Neighbouring Families, The Darning-Needle, The Little Match Girl, The Red Shoes.
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Hace mucho tiempo el diablo construyó un espejo mágico que deformaba las cosas: todo lo que era bello se convertía en feo, y todo lo que era feo se convertía en horrendo.
El diablo se divertía mirando el mundo en su espejo mágico, pero un día se rompió y los pedazos cayeron sobre la Tierra.
La colección Cuentos de bolsillo reúne los cuentos y fábulas de toda la vida relatados con una visión muy actual y acompañados por magníficas ilustraciones...
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This enchanting collection contains twelve of Hans Christian Andersen's magnificent stories. It includes Thumbelina, a little girl no more than a thumb-joint high, The Emperor's New Clothes, the tale of a man who cares only for his appearance and The Little Mermaid, who longs to one day marry a human prince.
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Originally published in 1924, this collection The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen is illustrated with the magnificent Art Nouveau color illustrations of Kay Nielsen. It was a project that took Nielsen twelve years to complete, and his illustrations perfectly capture the other-worldly spirit of Andersen's subject matter. It includes such well-known and loved tales as "The Snow Queen," "The Real Princess," "The Hardy Tin Soldier" and "The Nightingale."...
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Rediscover traditional tales and fall in love with new ones with Bendon's Classic Children's Storybooks! Amazing adventures and beloved characters fill 30 colorful pages with timeless artwork that little readers will love. Poor little Ugly Duckling, with his clumsy feet and rough, gray feathers must endure a harsh winter. But then spring arrives - and with it, a miraculous surprise! Collect all of our stories to complete your library!
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This collection includes "The Little Mermaid," the story of a mermaid princess who falls in love with a human; "Great Claus and Little Claus," an account of a clever young man who turns a series of misfortunes into a fortune; as well as "The Ugly Duckling," "The Red Shoes," "Thumbelina," and more. 12 unabridged stories.
29) The Snow Queen
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The strength of young Gerda's love enables her to overcome many obstacles as she tries to free her beloved friend, Kay, from the Snow Queen's spell.
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Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales have delighted generations of readers since they were first published starting in 1835. The Ultimate Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales brings together many of Andersen's best-known and loved works including "The Little Mermaid," "The Princess on the Pea," "The Ugly Duckling," and "Thumbelina." Beloved by children and adults, Andersen's fairy tales have been adapted countless times for the stage and screen,...
32) The swineherd
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A prince disguises himself as a swineherd and learns the true character of the princess he desires.
33) Pulgarcita
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El texto sencillo y ilustraciones cautivadoras se emparejan con música hermosa y efectos de sonido divertidos para ayudar a contar el cuento clásico de "Pulgarcita."Cuando una campesina pobre de buen corazón da su última barra de pan a un mendigo, ella obtiene una semilla a cambio. Imagina la sorpresa de la campesina cuando por la mañana aparece una hermosa flor con una jovencita dentro de sus pétalos. La campesina la nombra Pulgarcita. Averigua...
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Includes: Thumbelina, The Brave Tin Soldier, The Princess And The Pea, The Butterfly, The Flea And The Professor, The Flying Trunk, The Metal Pig, The Storks, The Silver Shilling, And The Nightingale. Read by the finalist in the Naxos Audiobooks/The Times Voice of the year competition.
35) Contes
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Une édition de référence des Contes de Hans Christian Andersen, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Il s'élança dans l'eau et nagea à la rencontre des cygnes. Ceux-ci l'aperçurent et se précipitèrent vers lui les plumes soulevées. « Tuez-moi », dit le pauvre animal ; et, penchant la tête vers la surface de l'eau, il attendait la mort.
Mais que vit-il dans l'eau transparente ? Il vit sa propre image...
36) The Bell
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In "The Bell" a mysterious distant bell is heard by the inhabitants of a village. Knowing that it is not coming from the village the inhabitants search the forest, but are unable to find the source. A prince and a poor child eventually come to discover the source of the bell is mysterious, old and from nature itself. A parable about the transience of earthly things.
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In "The Story of a Mother" A mother is watching over her sick child, when having briefly closed her eyes, Death comes and takes the child. The mother rushes outside to pursue Death and encounters various spirits who offer conditional advice, including a thorn bush, who takes her heart's blood and a lake which takes her eyes in exchange for passage across it. Finally finding her child in Death's greenhouse, he offers her a terrible choice. First published...
38) The Fir Tree
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In "The Fir-Tree" a little tree who is anxious to grow up, fails to appreciate that which happens to him in the moment. After experiencing burning humiliation at being small and insignificant, he is chopped down and decorated for a family's Christmas decorations. Expecting this to be the beginning of a great career, the fir tree is bitterly disappointed when he is discarded after a day and eventually cut into pieces and burned. First published in...
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Sometimes we weary of houseguests. The goblin in this short story from classic author Hans Christian Andersen can't quite decide whether he wanted to stay with the student who loved poetry or the huckster who had porridge. Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience...
40) The Naughty Boy
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In "The Naughty Boy" and old poet welcomes a wet and shivering boy into his home to warm up. It transpires that the boy has an ulterior motive. One involving a bow and arrow. This short tale by Hans Christian Andersen is a meditation on the naughtiness and ubiquity of Cupid.
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