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

The 10 winners of The New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award are chosen each year by ...

The H.C. Andersen House is open to the public on a limited basis in the writer’s hometown of Odense, Denmark. The H.C. Andersen House in Odense, Denmark. Photo: Laerke Beck Johansen. Artnet News ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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Chances are, you’re already pretty familiar with the tales of ‘The Snow Queen’, ‘The Ugly Duckling’, ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘Thumbelina’ and ‘The Princess and the Pea’. But a new museum in Denmark aims ...

To mark what would have been Hans Christian Andersen's 205th birthday, here are 10 big screen adaptations inspired by the Danish author's work. The Little Mermaid Undoubtedly the most successful ...

Hans Christian Andersen was a dreamer who migrated between the worlds of fantasy and reality while becoming one of the world's best-known fairy tale authors. He died in Copenhagen on August 4, 1875 ...