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    Thumbelina and other Fairy Tales
    Thumbelina and other Fairy Tales
    Thumbelina and other Fairy Tales
    Audiobook2 hours

    Thumbelina and other Fairy Tales

    Written by Hans Christian Andersen

    Narrated by Various Narrators

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    About this audiobook

    This delightful selection of stories by one of the classic masters of the genre includes some well-known and lesser known tales, presented in lively Naxos AudioBooks style with music and sound effects.

    This recording is also unique in that the stories are read by the finalists in the Naxos AudioBooks/The Times Voice of the Year competition which offered a recording opportunity to talented readers who had never studied or worked professionally. The competition produced some outstanding natural talents as this recording shows!

    This title includes the following tales: "Thumbelina"; "The Brave Tin Soldier"; "The Princess and the Pea"; "The Butterfly"; "The Flea and the Professor"; "The Flying Trunk"; "The Metal Pig"; "The Storks"; "The Silver Shilling"; and "The Nightingale".

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateMar 1, 2006
    ISBN9789629543730
    Thumbelina and other Fairy Tales
    Author

    Hans Christian Andersen

    Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark, in 1805. He endured a lonely, impoverished childhood consoled by little more than his own imagination. He escaped to a theatre life in Copenhagen aged 14 where the support of a powerful patron enabled him to complete his scant education, and to write. His poetry, novels and travel books became hugely popular. But it was his Fairy Tales, the first children's stories of their kind, published in instalments from 1835 until the time of his death in 1875, that have immortalised him. Translated into more than 100 languages and adapted to every kind of media, they have made Andersen the most important children's writer in history.

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    • 3/5
      Thumbelina was just as good as I remembered, but the other stories were all very mundane or boring.