In Five Weeks in the Country, author Francine Prose imagines a distressing, ill-timed visit to Charles Dickens' home in 1857 ...

Hans Christian Andersen, Author, Ricki Klages, Illustrator, Linnea Gentry, Author Harbinger House $9.95 (45p) ISBN 978-0-943173-13-9 In a stirring retelling complemented by vivid watercolors, the ...

Two new middle grade novels insist Hans Christian Andersen got it all wrong. From “The Little Match Girl Strikes Back.”Credit...Lauren Child Supported by By Jennifer Howard One might think Hans ...

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 ...

Wirtz Theatre productions at Northwestern University featured a love letter to the art of storytelling on Saturday with the opening of their new musical “Hans Christian Andersen.” This new stage ...

Hans Christian Andersen is well known worldwide among children and adults as the author of fairy tales including The Ugly Duckling, The Little Mermaid and The Emperor's New Clothes. But in Denmark, ...

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HANS Christian Andersen was a sweet old man who wrote fairytales for kids. He was also really strange. Here’s what you never knew about the beloved children’s author. Well, for a start, quite a few ...

The weekly feature rounds up the latest updates in museum appointments, openings, funding and new exhibitions from across the UK. A water-themed, lesbian-centric group exhibition in Staten Island ...

Hans Christian Andersen's fairytales (he soon dropped the designation "for children") have captivated generations with their blend of plain language, unbridled imagination and haunting strangeness.

Once upon a time a little boy became a literary sensation. A man with a peculiar take on happily ever after, the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen wrote tales that have inspired operas, ballets, a ...