His fairy tales are part of our cultural fabric, but “The Little Match Girl” still haunts me. An 1849 illustration for “The Little Match Girl” from the first American edition of “Hans Andersen’s Story ...

A collection of well-known fairy stories by Hans Christian Andersen, adapted for children aged 7 - 11 and read by Anne-Marie Duff, Sir Derek Jacobi, David Tennant and Penelope Wilton. Tales of Hans ...

The prolific Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen died 150 years ago, yet fairy tales like "The Little Mermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling" still move readers to this day. Hans Christian Andersen was a ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Hans Christian Anderson, a great-nephew and namesake of the famous fairy ...

Two new middle grade novels insist Hans Christian Andersen got it all wrong. From “The Little Match Girl Strikes Back.”Credit...Lauren Child Supported by By Jennifer Howard One might think Hans ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the BBC Radio 4 podcast History’s Heroes, Alex von Tunzelmann looks at extraordinary true stories from across history of people with purpose, brave ideas, and the courage to stand alone. The Danish ...

His oddball stories were driven by his outsider status and strange appearance. By Frances Wilson There once was an ugly duckling, so despised by the other birds that he fled the farm to explore the ...

Dougray Scott (“Mission: Impossible 2,” “Desperate Housewives”) will embody iconic Danish author Hans Christian Andersen in “Fairytale Detective,” a new crime drama series from writer Brendan Foley ...

Nova Scotia illustrator Sydney Smith has won the 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration, making him the first ever Canadian winner. The biannual award, presented by the International ...