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 ...

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (STNJ) will present a scripts-in-hand presentation of beloved fairytales in ...

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 ...

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He was 72. Hans (Henri) Louis de Lannoy was born on July 17, 1952, in The Hague, the Netherlands, to Ferdinand George de Lannoy and Frona Elisabeth Munnich. Hans’s parents met in a transition ...

Hans Christian Andersen was 'a very strange orchid,' says Michael Booth. He was born in 1806 in Denmark, and today is still famous for so many stories that every child knows, 156 in total.

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 ...

It was “Les Contes d’Andersen,” a French translation of the Danish fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, No. 28 in “Lectures et Loisirs,” a series of books for children. This ...

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 ...

Brenda Dales, now Professor Emerita and former Assistant Teaching Professor in TCE, has been selected as the only U.S. member on the 10-member 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Award (HCA) jury. The HCA, ...

Famed Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) is recognized around the world for his beloved books, including The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, The Little Match Girl, The Princess and the ...