Every Little Mermaid Halloween costume, every reference to “Ugly Duckling Syndrome,” and every use of “the Emperor’s New Clothes” as an idiom ultimately has its roots in the fairy tales of Hans ...

A handful of fall books invite youngsters to gather 'round. Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, trans. by Naomi Lewis, illus. by Joel Stewart, reads like an ode to the writer himself. Lewis gives ...

One New Year’s Eve, a poor little girl wandered barefoot through the streets in the bitter cold. She was carrying a box of matches to sell, but no one bought any all day, and she dared not go home ...

Sir Roger Moore and some of today’s top actors have teamed up to create a new educational app called Giving Tales. GivingTales features short animated versions of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales ...

Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Ricki Klages, Illustrator, Linnea Gentry, Author Harbinger House $9.95 (45p) ISBN 978-0-943173-13-9 In a stirring retelling complemented by vivid watercolors, the ...

There were once two clever brothers who made up their minds to propose to the king’s daughter, as she had made it known that she would take whichever man for a husband who had the most to say for ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — For years, the somber fairy tale about a lonely candle who wanted to be lit dwelt in oblivion at the bottom of a box in Denmark's National Archives. Its recent discovery has sent ...

If you don’t know Hans Christian Andersen from such fairy tales as The Ugly Duckling, The Princess and the Pea, and Thumbelina, surely you know him from the Disney films his works inspired, like The ...

It's my favorite of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales. It's also the strangest, and the one he wrote the fastest — in a rare burst of inspiration. It's "The Snow Queen" — a tale that took just ...

Image Credit: ACG Travel Videos. Some places truly feel like they're straight out of a fairy tale. Others take direct inspiration from books and films to create a fantasy world for all to enjoy. For ...

The life of the children's author (Kieran Dew) is dramatized in a teleplay that chronicles Hans's journey from destitute dreamer to celebrated writer and his romantic pursuit of a beautiful opera ...