The luminous art of three-time Caldecott Honor recipient Jerry Pinkney transforms the nineteenth-century Danish girl of Andersen’s tale into a child plucked straight from America’s melting pot, shedding new light on the invisibility of the poor among the prosperous-a circumstance as familiar in Andersen’s day as it is in our own.
“[A] beautifully illustrated version of a classic tale.”(Booklist, starred review)Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dial Books
Published: 09/23/2002
Series: Picture Puffin Books
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 11.56h x 8.83w x 0.08d
ISBN: 9780142301883
Language: English
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