Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen

Informationen zum Autor Ken Setterington; illustrated by Nelly and Ernst Hofer Klappentext Gerda and Kay are the best of friends. They live across an alley from each other and happily chat! play! and tend their lovely rose garden. The children are happy until tragedy strikes Kay. His eye and heart are pierced with fragments of a mirror! and the loving boy Gerda knew vanishes. The Snow Queen has put him under her spell and taken him to her palace of snow and ice. It is up to Gerda to find him and bring him home to the love that awaits him. In this timeless storybook! Ken Setterington has captured the haunting beauty of the classic tale of love's ability to conquer the coldest! most damaged heart. The book is illustrated with the delicate traditional cut paper art of scherenschnitt ! which Hans Christian Andersen himself practiced. Zusammenfassung Gerda and Kay are the best of friends. They live across an alley from each other and happily chat! play! and tend their lovely rose garden. The children are happy until tragedy strikes Kay. His eye and heart are pierced with fragments of a mirror! and the loving boy Gerda knew vanishes. The Snow Queen has put him under her spell and taken him to her palace of snow and ice. It is up to Gerda to find him and bring him home to the love that awaits him. In this timeless storybook! Ken Setterington has captured the haunting beauty of the classic tale of love’s ability to conquer the coldest! most damaged heart. The book is illustrated with the delicate traditional cut paper art of scherenschnitt ! which Hans Christian Andersen himself practiced.

Product details

• Authors: Hans Christian Andersen, Ernst Hofer, Nelly Hofer, Ken Setterington
• Assisted by: Ernst Hofer (Illustration), Nelly Hofer (Illustration), Ken Setterington (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Tundra Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2000
• EAN: 9780887764974
• ISBN: 978-0-88776-497-4
• No. of pages: 48
• Dimensions: 187 mm x 235 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs > Fairytales and sagas; JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Legends, Myths, Fables / General, Traditional stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories