Elizabeth Ward
…a vivid new translation here by Stephen Mitchell…Bagram Ibatoulline's delicate watercolor and pen-and-ink illustrations bring out its latent, violent weirdness very well.
—The Washington Post
The Tinderbox is a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. A poor soldier meets a witch, he helps her get a special tinderbox. Then he steals the tinderbox from her. He becomes a rich man and falls in love with the princess, but he's not allowed to marry her, because he is a soldier... The moral of the story is: greed can lead to terrible things. Recommended for 8+.
The Tinderbox
The Tinderbox is a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. A poor soldier meets a witch, he helps her get a special tinderbox. Then he steals the tinderbox from her. He becomes a rich man and falls in love with the princess, but he's not allowed to marry her, because he is a soldier... The moral of the story is: greed can lead to terrible things. Recommended for 8+.
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940176744187 |
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| Publisher: | Ririro |
| Publication date: | 11/21/2022 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
| Age Range: | 5 - 8 Years |
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