Andersen spent most of his adult life in hotels, rented lodgings, or the palatial homes of loyal friends, many of whom set ...

Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Nightingale” is about an emperor in China who captures a nightingale that lives in his garden. This enchanting tale comes to the stage of the Children’s Creativity ...

Today is International Children’s Book Day – chosen to coincide with Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday – and we’re looking back at the author’s influence and the significance of ...

Vivid visuals and macabre humour animate this modern reworking of Hans Christian Andersen’s grisly fairytale Even by fairytale standards, Hans Christian Andersen’s story of puritanical ...

People might think fairy tales end with a happy marriage, usually into a royal family, but many older versions of classic ...

By Sabrina Orah Mark Two new middle grade novels insist Hans Christian Andersen got it all wrong. By Jennifer Howard Igiaba Scego, an author born in Rome to Somali parents, recommends books that ...

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 ...

But let's be real here: the people (and Twitter bots) crying over The Little Mermaid casting don't care about being "accurate" to Hans Christian Andersen's original story. If they did, they would ...

There once lived a tiny elf, so small that human eyes could not see him, in the middle of a garden in the petals of a rose bush. One night, the sprite was out exploring too late, and by the time he ...

Just as the two left for the castle, their younger brother, named Hans Clodhopper, ran up and resolved to join them. He rode on a billy goat, as their father would not allow him a horse, and soon ...

Hans Christian Andersen Lives Next Door is a funny and thought-provoking middle-grade novel about the power of stories – especially the ones we tell ourselves. Real life isn’t a fairy tale for Andie ...

The Danish fairy-tale author Hans Christian Andersen stayed in Sestri Levante in 1833—four years before he published the tale. Legend has it that the promontory the town was built on was formed ...